Flooding – Emergency Comms 🌧️
Ready for Emergency Communication?
When fiber cuts, power outages, or severe weather knock out cell service, your community still needs a dependable way to receive urgent flood warnings and emergency updates. Our portable Radio Station in a Box 🇨🇦 gives communities a fast, resilient communication tool for broadcasting local alerts, evacuation notices, road closures, shelter information, and safety instructions when other systems fail. Designed for rapid deployment, it helps you reach residents directly over the air — including Elders, remote households, and anyone without access to smartphones, data service or social media.
Built for Indigenous communities, local governments, and emergency response teams, this solution helps strengthen preparedness before the next flood or disaster strikes. We can support you with equipment, setup, and guidance on the regulatory options available for your area, including pathways for temporary or community broadcasting where permitted. Combined with tools like Alert Ready and local emergency planning, a community radio system expands your reach and ensures critical notifications get heard when every minute matters.
Radio Station in a Box RIAB
4 – 6 weeks delivery lead delivery time
Northern Canada Indigenous Radio Funding
Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages, announced funding totaling $17.2 million over two years for the production and broadcasting of Indigenous audio and video content. The Government of Canada is providing this support through the Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting component of the Indigenous Languages Program.
Canadian Journalism Collective
Congratulations to the Voice of the Shuswap Broadcast Society on receiving $265.97 in Local Journalism Funding to support community-based reporting and strengthen access to local news and information.
https://cjc-ccj.ca/en/funding-recipients/
Canadian Premiere of ‘Ceremony’
Don’t miss the Canadian premiere of Ceremony at Hot Docs, a powerful new film set in the ramshackle world of Nuxalk Radio in Bella Coola, where the disappearance of the ooligan run uncovers a buried history deeper than the river itself. Catch it at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto on April 30 at 5:30 PM or May 1 at 11:30 AM as part of the Toronto International Film Festival venue lineup.
Learn more here: https://linktr.ee/CeremonyFilm
Start an Indigenous Radio Station
Launch an Indigenous language radio station in Canada or abroad with confidence. Whether your community is exploring a low-power FM service, an online stream, or a full community radio network, we provide the technology, guidance, and hands-on expertise to help bring your vision to life. From understanding regulations and licensing requirements to selecting the right studio and transmission equipment, we make the process clear, practical, and achievable.
https://www.openbroadcaster.com/knowledge-education/start-your-own-indigenous-radio-station/
Source Code Updates
OBServer
✅ Search – Filter by And or Or same-column filters
✅ Search – Filter by Copyright Owner in advanced search
✅ Search – Filter by Date created and last updated fields
✅ Search – Filter for Dynamic selections
✅ Search – Filter by ID for media and playlists
✅ Search – Filter by Owner and group for media and playlists
✅ Search – Filter by Media type format
✅ Search – Filter by Status “Never been broadcast”
✅ Search – Filter by Status Private, Visible and Public
✅ Enhance playlist search with type filtering and badge styles
✅ Sharing functionality for saved searches
✅ Fixes for issue not having defaults set for Voice Tracking preventing saves
OBPlayer
✅ GStreamer pipeline fails to re-patch audio output after long pause (~8 min), causing silent output bug. When leaving Live Assist unattended for over 2+ hours will now continue to be responsive.
Development Roadmap
Our development roadmap on OBServer 5.5 introduces a revamped media search experience in the Media sidebar, built on Lit, delivering a faster, cleaner, and more responsive interface. In the coming weeks, we’ll be expanding the Playlist sidebar while adding more powerful search and archiving features using Lit to improve content discovery and workflow. As we continue updating more parts of OBServer to Lit, each step moves us closer to our goal of creating a fully mobile-friendly application with a smoother, more modern user experience across devices.
What is Lit?
Lit is a minimalist framework for building fast, lightweight web components. It is based on modern web standards like Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, and HTML Templates.
📢 Emergency Comms 101 – Free Training Session
Alert Player Radio Training – 90 minute session with a certificate upon completion!
🗓 Date: April 30, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM Pacific Time
📍 In Person location: Yukonstruct 2180 2nd Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon.
📍 Online: Discord
Learn the essentials of CAP emergency communications, unattended radio broadcasting and other useful information in this hands-on training session. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your skills! 🚀
Register Now for an invite!
Upcoming Trade Shows
Western Association of Broadcast Engineers (WABE)
WABE Media & Entertainment Technology Conference is coming to the Pinnacle Hotel Harbour front in Vancouver from October 5–7!
Community Code Contributions
@TroyWarez @sreeshanth-soma @btelliot @delongtime @hinanaya
News? Events? Something to share with the community?
Please send to media@openbroadcaster.com