NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with SpectraRep LLC, an affiliate company of BIA Advisory Services (BIA), to evaluate how broadcast television datacasting can provide a resilient, redundant pathway for delivering NOAA Weather Radio audio and data during emergencies. (Read the full announcement) What this means for broadcasters: […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

In the last 24 months, it has been rewarding to watch datacasting became a driver for positive change in education and continued to show its value for emergency preparedness. Public media and datacasting have two decades of history in experimentation, deployment, and execution – along with SpectraRep – and we are excited about what is […]