About Us

OpenBroadcaster’s Mission Statement is to develop open source products and services for broadcasters of any size, working in analog or digital environments. We offer open source broadcasting solutions to individuals, small-to-medium sized businesses and communities that allow them to distribute media over the air and via the Internet in an efficient and cost-effective manner. We aim to strengthen links between communities and cultures globally by supporting and facilitating the formation of broadcaster networks that are capable of pooling resources, jointly managing media and sharing stories.

Our History

OpenBroadcaster offers a suite of software and hardware support to help our clients be effective at any scale of operation. All of our solutions are developed to offer unparalleled stability and reliability, are free and open–source software (FOSS) under the AGPL3 Open Source License, and are managed through a web–based portal using Chrome, Fire Fox, Safari or any other modern HTML5 capable browser. Our solutions also provide crucial CAP emergency messaging services and are highly upgradeable. Our business model is based on the development of free and open–source software (FOSS) with revenue generated through customization, developer tools and technical support.

Broadcast Experience

We have over 25 years hands on experience in the broadcast and telecommunications industries:

1996 – Tagishtel full duplex analog radio telephony connecting Tagish to Whitehorse 120 Kms away

1997 – Launched CFET 106.7 FM the Yukon’s first commercial FM station in Tagish

1998 – Community Broadband microwave link connecting Whitehorse to Tagish and Marsh Lake Firehalls

2001 – Government of Canada tests prototype of OpenBroadcaster on CFET Radio 106.7 FM in Tagish YT. Flexibility and capacity to facilitate the insertion and delivery of remote radio broadcasts, as and when required, via the Internet to an on-air radio station while it operates in an unattended automated mode.

2002 – Part of Environment Canada’s Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) Weather Alarm™ project.

2007 – Profiled in international media using low cost Barix equipment for priority emergency messaging.

2012 – CFET Radio began a pilot project with Yukon Government Emergency Measures Organization to evaluate satellite based unattended CAP emergency alerting.

2013 – Part of JTFN’s Operation Nanook held in Whitehorse.

2015 – Pelmorex Alert Ready integration with a standalone open source CAP software web application for broadcast sector.

2016 – Embedded streaming player and OpenBroadcaster appliance.

2017 – Livewire RTP AoIP (Audio over Internet Protocol) support for digital AXIA boards and devices. 100% Digital in and out.

2018 – Sound Exchange reporting module. Statistics and graphs. Raspberry PI IMG. Start your own online radio station on a tiny super computer.

2019 – Supports indigenous languages for unattended emergency alerts. Translation framework to provide GUI support to translate menus and help screens.

2020 – Embed code, to display media items and galleries in popular CMS, such as Drupal and WordPress. Documented API

2021 – Album Art and Meta updating with acoustic finger printing. POLLY Ai voices included in alerting.

See our Change Log for most recent developments