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

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Buckle up: Traditional TV is in for a heck of a ride

November 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Digital Television, Future of public media

Good overview on where media may be headed. “MSO” refers to multiple system operators, the big cable companies. The first wave of commercialization on the Internet had a tremendous impact on our lives and has disrupted most — if not all — industry value chains. The print industry was in the eye of the storm, [...]

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Joe Berlinger’s case yields preliminary “wins” for both sides

July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Future of public media, Journalism, News, Public Affairs, Public Media

Both sides have claimed early victories in the case of documentarian Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron over access to the raw footage he shot for his expose “Crude” on Amazonian oil exploitation. I’ve blogged about the case and the filmmaking community reaction here. On Thursday, the appeals judge ruled that Berlinger must turn over Crude footage [...]

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iPhone HD film-making has arrived!

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Filmmaking, Fun Stuff, Future of public media, High Definition, Journalism, Multi-media

Look out – here come’s mobile film-making! No excuses – the editing application is in the phone! via vimeo.com

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Let’s Put the ‘Public’ back in Public Broadcasting

May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Future of public media, News, PBS, Public Affairs, Public Media

I usually try to shorten reposted blogs, but this Gwen Ifill/Jay Rosen dialogue has really caught my interest. I’m convinced that public media needs to be looking at itself HARDER and with more real concern than we are. Because the tidal wave is about to wash over us… (for more background on the Ifill/Rosen story [...]

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Lobby group wants to make docs a priority for Public Television

May 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, Future of public media, Multi-media, PBS

This group is looking worldwide, but I wonder how PBS might respond to this group’s plea. Lobby group wants to make docs a priority for PSBs by Kelly Anderson At the recent Hot Docs festival, MercuryMedia CEO Tim Sparke took the opportunity to announce the launch of the Documentary Distributors’ Association, a group that aims [...]

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Ouch! “Need to Know” takes one for the team!

May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Future of public media, Multi-media, News, PBS, Public Affairs, Public Media

Washington Post Critic takes on PBS for replacing Moyers with Need to Know: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/10/AR2010051005113.html I’m not sure it is really deserved. Watch here and decide for yourself: http://video.mountainlake.org/program/1458405365/ via video.mountainlake.org

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PBS Revolution Discussion Continued…

May 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Documentary, Educational Programming, Future of public media, Local stories, Mountain Lake Journal, Multi-media, News, PBS, Public Affairs, Uncategorized

Below is a thread that began several weeks ago (as reported here and here) on Revolution PBS, an anonymous blog. I’m picking up the thread mid-stream. If you haven’t seen the beginning, you can start with my post linked above and then the “Spoonful of Sugar” post picked up here. I’ve added my comments from [...]

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Sister station with a mission! WSKG has the best mission/vision/values that a station could ask for!

May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Future of public media, PBS

Thanks @AmyWoo and the Twitter Chat group #pubmedia for the tipoff to go read this statement. About Mission Guided by your aspirations, WSKG serves to inspire with the highest quality educational programming, explore the arts, culture and heritage of the region and beyond, engage in thoughtful consideration of news and issues of importance, and entertain [...]

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MediaPost Publications

May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Future of public media, Multi-media, PBS, PBS Distribution

Why Online Video Fails To Meet Its Lofty Expectations With television advertising being a $70 billion market and total online advertising weighing in at $22.7 billion for 2009, you can’t help but wonder why online video advertising only represents a $1 billion market. In fact, according to the IAB, video advertising grew from $734 million [...]

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Response to PBS Revolution

April 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Educational Programming, Future of public media, Multi-media, News, PBS, Public Affairs

Here is my response to the provocative site PBS revolution and the thoughtful post by John Proffitt posted yesterday. Colin Powers said… Like John, I’m interested to see how the dialogue develops on some of your provocative ideas. Anyone involved in the PBS system who doesn’t feel the pain of investing heavily in distribution technology [...]

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