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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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Entries Tagged as 'Plattsburgh'

Plattsburgh soil gets a scrubbing

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · History, Local stories, Public Affairs

This is one of the local stories that doesn’t get much attention. Years of toxic dumping next to downtown left a plume of waste trickling into the sand and gravel along our beautiful Saranac River. DEC and the town have slowly been cleaning the site and it will soon be a full-fledged park.  Sad to [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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