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Enhancing Public Safety: The Evolution and Impact of Datacasting

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Enhancing Public Safety: The Evolution and Impact of Datacasting

Did you know that broadcast datacasting, which started with closed captioning, now plays a vital role in public safety and emergency communications? SpectraRep, an affiliate of BIA, has pioneered datacasting and is developing a nationwide wireless network for public safety, emergency management, remote learning, and more. In this podcast, SpectraRep’s COO, John McCoskey, and CTO, […]
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SpectraRep Deploys NextGen Broadcast Emergency Communications Datacast

Marine Corps Marathon is Backdrop for Advanced Interagency Sharing NextGen Technology Supports Enhanced Public Safety CHANTILLY, VA, Jan 10, 2023 – In a successful demonstration of the advanced emergency datacasting features of the NextGen Broadcast (ATSC 3.0) standard, SpectraRep® LLC released the results of its sophisticated deployment of advanced interagency sharing protocols for emergency communications […]
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Podcast: NextGen TV Datacasting: What’s Ahead for Local Television

BIA Advisory Services, SpectraRep’s parent company, invited Mark O’Brien, President and CTO of SpectraRep, to join their Leading Local Insights Podcast to discuss NextGen TV datacasting and local television. BIA’s U.S. Local Ad forecast shows that by 2030, the local TV industry’s ATSC 3.0 infrastructure will generate about $10 billion in non-core revenue that is […]
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Datacasting on Display During 4th of July Celebrations in National Mall

During the 2022 July 4th celebrations on the National Mall in D.C., SpectraRep was behind the scenes delivering on a datacasting pilot to deliver video, alerts, and file sharing with D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management and six other federal and local public safety agencies. The goal was to help strengthen emergency communications and inter-agency […]
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Experience How Far Datacasting Has Come at the NAB

If you will be at NAB in April, come see SpectraRep firsthand. Here’s how to catch up with us: We will be exhibiting in theConnect Experiential Zone W6428, with scheduled live demos Sun-Tues at 4:30pm. We can also conduct demonstrations anytime on the show floor in that same West Hall booth (W6428). Our panel discussionATSC […]
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BBIC: Introduction to Broadcast Internet

This video introduces the concept of Broadcast Internet, and features Jerry Fritz from ONE Media. This video is #1 in a series from SpectraRep and the Broadcast-Broadband Infrastructure Coalition. Further videos from our collaboration with the BBIC can be seen in the playlist on our YouTube page here.   
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Emergency Connectivity Fund
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FCC Opens Window on Emergency Connectivity Fund program

As noted by America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) in a recent post, the FCC opened the window today, June 29, through August 13, 2021 for applications to the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF). Libraries and eligible schools can submit requests for purchases of eligible equipment  made between the dates July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022. […]
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Datacasting for Emergency Management & Public Safety

SpectraRep partnered with PBS 39 in Ft. Wayne, and also with local, state, and federal officials in Adams County, Indiana. The purpose of this collaboration was to demonstrate the full range of datacasting for public safety and emergency management in a simulation exercise, specifically a school schooter incident. This short video shows how datacasting uses […]
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“What is datacasting?”

Our colleagues at SCETV created this video to explain how datacasting works in under 3 minutes. It gives a terrific overview of how this technology can help close the homework gap by bridging the space between the classroom and broadband.
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