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SpectraRep’s EduCast™ Selected by New Mexico Public Education Department to Deliver Classroom Content to Students Without Broadband

Pilot project is the first U.S. educational datacasting deployment using ATSC 3.0 CHANTILLY, VA — December 7, 2021 — SpectraRep’s EduCast™ datacasting service has been selected by the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) to deliver classroom content over-the-air to students without access to sufficient broadband services in their homes in order to improve their […]
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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

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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Winegard and SpectraRep Give Students Without Broadband Easier Access to Remote Learning

This partnership combines SpectraRep’s EduCast™ datacasting technology and Winegard’s amplified antennas. BURLINGTON, Iowa, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Over the last year, Winegard and SpectraRep have been working together to make remote learning easier during the COVID-19 crisis—especially for those families without high-speed broadband access. All through the power of datacasting technology. A solution to remote-learning equity… that few […]
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