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More on over-the-air HD… save money!

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, High Definition, Multi-media

The nicest thing about receiving HD over-the-air is that is comes through with the least amount of video compression. Cable and satellite providers necessarily compress HD in order to fit all those HD channels in a pretty skinny pipe. Over-the-air is the cleanest HD image you’ll find.

Small Town, Big Dreams gets another national airing!

February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, History, PBS

After a great couple weeks of broadcast around the US on dozens of PBS affiliates, Small Town, Big Dreams: The Lake Placid Olympic Story is getting a national run on PBS World, the sub-channel of more than 50 PBS affiliates. It will air this Saturday night, March 27 at 7 PM eastern for anyone with [...]

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 [...]

Bragging rights…

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation, Multi-media

Sort of a blatant “toot” of our own horn, but I couldn’t resist… We just posted to the Mountain Lake PBS YouTube page two clips showing off our beautiful graphics and effects work on Forgotten War. The short one is embedded here, the five minute one is here. Also, we have some new history minutes [...]

Dead Reckoning Preview at Plattsburgh’s Cumberland 12 Theater!

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation

Don’t miss the PBS event of the fall! Mountain Lake PBS’s animated documentary – Dead Reckoning in Plattsburgh For a downloadable poster click here.

Sign of the times at PBS!

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · PBS

The truth is that PBS needs its members more than ever today as state and federal funding gets slashed. Mountain Lake PBS generates over 60% of its income from members and local support – we need YOU to keep doing what we’re doing. More scary stuff at the KCET blog…

23rd Congressional District Round-up on MLJ

October 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Educational Programming, Mountain Lake Journal, News, PBS, Public Affairs

Watch Mountain Lake Journal on Thursday for special coverage of the hottest electoral race in the US this year – our 23rd district race for John McHugh’s seat. Dede Scozzafava, Bill Owens and Doug Hoffman are all interviewed by Thom Hallock, Brian Mann from NCPR will provide commentary and we’ll feature clips from the Owens [...]

The NEW NewsHour

October 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Educational Programming, News, PBS, Public Affairs

Mountain Lake PBS will launch a new version of the NewsHour on December 7. Here’s a short discussion with Jim Lehrer about the changes: On December 7, 2009 The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer will re-launch with a new look, a new correspondent and a new program title: PBS NewsHour. Jim Lehrer, recently shared his thoughts [...]

H1N1 Special – Live Call in on Thursday Night

October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Mountain Lake Journal, PBS, Public Affairs

Tune in to Mountain Lake Journal at 8:00 on Thursday, October 22 for a live call-in program on the H1N1 Flu Epidemic and what local health officials recommend you do. The program is followed by a special H1N1 edition of Second Opinion, the nationally distributed health program from WXXI PBS in Rochester. The panel will [...]