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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Forgotten War gets great numbers!!!

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Illustration - Animation, PBS, PBS Distribution

Forgotten War (see ealier post) will be uplinked to the PBS network on November 29th in both Standard and High Definition.  American Public Television reports that 205 stations (96 licensees) voted YES for coverage that equals 68% of the nation’s TV markets!  The list includes three of the biggest PBS stations around: WNET13, WGBH – Boston, and [...]

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Documentary Film Maker's Handbook is Online

October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, PBS, Resources

The open source world is great. Check this out: The Documentary Film Makers Handbook There is tons of great stuff to be found here. Page 323, for instance has a list of all the major international doc markets.

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Forgotten War going national

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Illustration - Animation, PBS, PBS Distribution

The one hour doc on the French & Indian War we just finished at Mountain Lake PBS has been offered to the PBS system by American Public Television one of the three major distributors to the PBS system (who, by the way, have the best guide to the tech side of producing for PBS that [...]

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