Mountain Lake PBS Productions

Colin Powers reflects on PBS programming for the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, & Quebec, public broadcasting, and the future of media distribution.

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Entries Tagged as 'DTV'

Revolution PBS: Efficiency Idea 1

April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Educational Programming, Future of public media, PBS

This new (anonymous) voice in the ether is offering up some radical, and, it seems, well motivated ideas about how to change up the public television system. Certainly worth wrestling with or embracing depending on your point of view… Efficiency Idea 1 In our quest to identify ways that PBS can cut costs, we will [...]

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C’mon dad! Can’t I be next…?

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Multi-media, PBS

clipped from www.current.org WGBH steps into the future with mobile DTV simulcasts WGBH is going where no station has gone before: This week it launched the first mobile DTV service in the system. The station is simulcasting its main HD channel along with its ‘GBH Kids Channel and two audio program streams. It’s the first [...]

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HD for Free? Of course… its called Over-the-Air

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, High Definition, Multi-media, PBS

Our Communications Director, Joanna Cummings recently discovered this great blog from a Montreal viewer: How to watch CBS, NBC, FOX, & PBS in HD for free A while back, I wrote about what a mess it is getting HD programming in Montreal. It’s either very expensive (Bell and Shaw Direct) or almost non-existent (Videotron). The [...]

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