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 'Online video'

Sundance Award winning Documantary “If a Tree Falls” – watch now on PBS

September 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Digital Television, Documentary, Filmmaking, PBS, Public Affairs

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Watch the full episode. See more POV. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front explores two of America’s most pressing issues — environmentalism and terrorism — by lifting the [...]

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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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The Next Big Thing – Traditional Television

May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Future of public media, Multi-media

In 4th quarter 2009, the time spent per week with online videos, social networks, blogs, and mobile videos combined was barely 3% as much time as was spent watching television on a home TV set. via baselineintel.com

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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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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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Tribeca Film Fest takes its movies to Video on Demand

April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, Multi-media

Tribeca looks to expand notion of film festival By JAKE COYLE (AP) – 6 days ago NEW YORK — When British director Mat Whitecross was growing up in Oxford, only so many movies screened in his local cinema — and not the intriguing movies he read about playing at film festivals or elsewhere. Whitecross estimates [...]

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Great simple concept… executed brilliantly

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, History

Check out these  beautiful vignettes produced by David Lynch and his son.  Plenty of real heart and soul with lots of time to really listen to what people are saying. Hat’s off!

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Mountain Lake PBSVideo Player is Live!

October 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Mountain Lake Journal, Multi-media

As one of only 14 stations nationwide, Mountain Lake PBS is proud to roll out the new local/national PBS video player. Check it out here. Watch your favorite local programs… email them to your friends or Adirondack – North Country friends anywhere in the world.

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