Mountain Lake PBS (WCFE-TV) is the public media station for the Adirondacks, Champlain Valley and Montreal, licensed to the Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Council and based in Plattsburgh, NY, serving viewers in New York, Vermont, Quebec and Ontario.
Mountain Lake PBS is the PBS member station for the Adirondacks, the Champlain Valley, Montreal and everywhere in between. Licensed to the Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Council as WCFE-TV, it signed on from Plattsburgh, New York on March 6, 1977 and broadcasts from a transmitter on Lyon Mountain, with cable and satellite carriage across northeastern New York, most of Vermont, eastern Ontario and southern Quebec. Most of its members live in Canada.
Its mission is to inspire and enrich people and communities through meaningful storytelling, entertainment, education and public engagement. Local productions include the newsmagazine Mountain Lake Journal, Tuesday Movie Club, Student Festival Films, America at 250 and Spotlight, and documentaries such as the Emmy-winning Arts in Exile: Tibetan Treasures in Small Town America and On Home Ground: Life after Service. Its subchannels carry PBS, NHK World and PBS Kids, and its education work centers on early childhood literacy and STEAM programs with schools and community partners.
The station works from One Sesame Street in Plattsburgh with a staff of about 25 in production, programming, development, communications, engineering and information technology, with joint master control handled in Syracuse. Applications go to Human Resources at HR@mlpbs.org, and it offers paid internships through the New York State Broadcasters Association program.
