IE 11 Not Supported

For optimal browsing, we recommend Chrome, Firefox or Safari browsers.

Datacasting — a New Tool

Live video streaming via a smartphone.

Now you can take advantage of public television's bandwidth to stream live video from a smartphone. When broadcast television transitioned from analog to digital broadcast transmissions, it created the opportunity to allocate the television spectrum in new ways. Datacasting takes advantage of a portion of the public broadcasting station’s bandwidth normally used for television programming, resulting in this technology being available to public safety organizations at a low cost and low stress to the systems.

Read more here about how Houston took advantage of the technology, Live Video Streaming via Smartphone, Brought to You by Datacasting

I did a search on the App Store for iTunes, but it did not come up. Anyone else have success?

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.