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WRD Indigenous Alerts Milestone 📻
January 29, 2026
Events & Webinars, News & Updates, Releases & Downloads
🎙️ Celebrate World Radio Day – Yukonstruct Whitehorse Insightful Look at Radio & Artificial Intelligence February 13, 2026 | 14:00 – 16:30 (Social 16:30–17:30) Where: Yukonstruct, Whitehorse | Also streaming online! World Radio Day is back and we’re exploring the exciting frontier where radio meets artificial intelligence! Whether you’re in the Yukon or tuning in […]
Read moreMilestone Release v5.4.0 ✨
January 24, 2026
Community, News & Updates, Open Source, Releases & Downloads
Today’s milestone v5.4.0 releases, representing thousands of hours and so many people and groups to thank. OBServer Release v5.4.0 (Jan 24, 2006) Github OBServer Release v5.4.0 Improvements 🔸 Trim value on advanced search query to prevent confusion 🔸 Code cleanup and refactoring 🔸 Add thumbnail version to media data 🔸 Don’t post playlog if in […]
Read moreIndigenous Alerts Response RFI 🚨
January 23, 2026
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Response to the Government of Canada: RFI for Indigenous Alerts We are proud to submit our official Request for Information (RFI) response to the Government of Canada, highlighting our innovative Indigenous Alerts solution. Our system empowers Indigenous communities with rapid, tailored alerts to enhance public safety and community resilience. This solution is designed with input […]
Read moreImproving Canadian Alerting 📢
November 21, 2025
News & Updates
Rob Hopkins, an Open Source broadcast automation developer, urges the CRTC, ISED, and NPAS partners to make Canada’s public emergency alerting system (NPAS) more reliable, inclusive, and transparent, especially for remote and Indigenous communities. Key Recommendations: Create a permanent, always-on CAP alert test signal Enforce strict CAP X.1303 standards with full multi-language/Unicode Support, including Indigenous […]
Read moreExciting News for Broadcasters!🎙️
October 8, 2025
News & Updates, Open Source
Voice Tracking Support OpenBroadcaster launched a new feature—Web-Based Voice Tracking with our intuitive Built in Audio Recorder! 📻 No matter your age or experience level, you can now: Record high-quality voice tracks directly in your web browser Create and edit shows easily from anywhere—school, home, or studio! Enjoy a simple, user-friendly interface—no software downloads needed […]
Read moreOBServer Release v5.3.5✨
July 1, 2025
News & Updates, Releases & Downloads
Latest Release Highlights – Broadcast Automation Experience greater stability, flexibility, and user control with the newest update to OpenBroadcaster’s broadcast automation system. This release brings major new features, significant enhancements, and important bug fixes—making your radio or TV broadcasting operations even more robust and efficient. Major New Features 🔹Voice Track Support in Playlists: Seamlessly add, […]
Read moreUNDRR Sasakawa Award Geneva 🏆
June 5, 2025
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UNDRR Sasakawa Award Geneva 🏆 Technology for Inclusive Resilience The 2025 UNDRR Sasakawa Award spotlights exceptional contributions toward disaster-resilient communities. This year’s theme—Connecting Science to People: Democratizing Access to Innovation and Technology for Disaster Resilient Communities—emphasizes the vital role that innovation and technology play in the global effort to reduce disaster risk. The award champions […]
Read moreEver get that gnawing feeling? 🦫
May 29, 2025
Events & Webinars, News & Updates
My 2025 nomination for Hall of Innovators is Tagish Radio Rob! RadioRob – Yukon Hall of Innovators Rob has no idea I’m nominating him and he’s never seen the piece below I wrote this morning for him. While we are lightly friends and worked together on a couple small jobs in early 2000s, we haven’t […]
Read moreIndigenous Media Archive Support 📢
December 20, 2024
Events & Webinars, News & Updates
Indigenous Community Media Fund (ICMF) The Indigenous Community Media Fund (ICMF) offers financial Support to strengthen infrastructure for Indigenous-managed media. The fund focuses on sustainability, environmental justice, and climate change initiatives within community media. Eligible Regions: Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, North America, and selected Asian countries. Grant Amounts: Up to $8,000 USD for individual media […]
Read moreCalling All Raspberry Pi Coders 🍓
November 8, 2024
News & Updates
DIY coder with a passion for open-source? We are searching for skilled and enthusiastic individuals to join our open-source broadcast projects! If you have experience with: Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Open Source Software Bash Scripting …we want to hear from you. Experience with community radio and broadcasting is a bonus but not required. This is a […]
Read moreWildfire Emergency Communication 🔥
March 26, 2024
News & Updates, Radio Automation
Wildfire Season Radio Station in a Box When cell phone towers go down due to fiber cuts or power outages, how do you ensure your community stays informed and safe? Traditional communication methods may falter, but with our mobile Radio Station in a Box, you have a reliable lifeline. Are you part of an indigenous […]
Read moreIndigenous Community Media Fund 📻
December 21, 2022
News & Updates, Open Source
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Tagish, Yukon: Experiencing winter at -40°C, which is also -40°F—a rare moment when Celsius and Fahrenheit meet! Stay warm, neighbors to the south. 2023 Call for Proposals: Indigenous Community Media Fund Strengthen Indigenous Community Radio and Media The Indigenous Community Media Fund by Cultural Survival empowers Indigenous radio stations and […]
Read moreWhy do I love community radio? 💡
November 23, 2022
News & Updates
25 years of CFET Radio. Everyday is innovation day at CFET and CJUC Community Radio. We have a really good pool of experienced professionals working in the field that enjoy meeting new friends from abroad that are passionate about building Open Source community broadcasting tools. ► เป็นอย่างไรบ้าง ► 你好吗 ► হ্যালো ► Namaste ► Kumasta! […]
Read moreRob is Analog Audience Favorite Award 📻
March 8, 2022
Events & Webinars, News & Updates
Available Light Film Festival 2022 Audience Choice Winners Rob is Analog – Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Rob Is Analog, is also the audience favorite. Yukon filmmaker, Jessica Hall’s funny and charming documentary about “Radio Rob” Hopkins: a ramshackle communications pirate who pioneered community radio in Southern Yukon and fights for the public’s […]
Read moreNew web site and store! 📢
January 23, 2022
News & Updates
Thank You for Your Support for the New Year We appreciate your patience as we work to ensure a smooth and successful start to the new year! Our priority is delivering an effortless, seamless experience for all your media management and broadcasting needs on the OpenBroadcaster platform. Your ongoing Support during this period of improvements […]
Read moreIndigenous radio alerting tools ⚠️
December 21, 2021
News & Updates
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Wishing you and yours all the best for The Holidays… This year more than ever!! CJUC Radio 92.5 FM 24 hour broadcast from Whitehorse Yukon Canada IT’S HAPPENING NOW! Listen CJUC LIVE Stream at CJUC Radio “The Juice” CJUC is SO EXCITED to be hosting our first 24 hour radio […]
Read moreOut In The Open – Spring 📢
April 2, 2021
News & Updates, Radio Automation
Radio Station in a Box Complete Radio Station in a Box (RIAB) assembled in a hard shell mobile case. 100% solid state, no moving parts! Open covers of mobile case Hook up antenna, AC power and internet Begin broadcasting POLLY AI Voices Update for legacy customers We have created a new firmware update for hardware, […]
Read moreResilience Through Innovation 🍓
November 18, 2020
News & Updates
Pyrate 3.0 November 18, 2020 Tagish, Yukon, Canada As part of Canadian Innovation Week, OpenBroadcaster is releasing Pyrate 3.0 free and open-source software (FOSS). An Open Source emergency response radio and TV broadcast toolkit for stations to remotely access their studios and distribute CAP emergency alert messages during COVID19. About Raspberry Pi Pyrate Broadcast Originally […]
Read moreHindsight is 2020 Foresight is 🎉
January 21, 2020
News & Updates
Happy New Year! Welcome to The New Decade! I’m presently located in and working out of Nan Thailand until April, 2020. Sawadee Cup! During the next 4 months, I’ll be travelling to neighboring countries and hoping to meet some of you face to face. Complimentary Raspberry PI To celebrate this new decade, we are offering […]
Read moreDigital Sovereignty Where is your data 📢
October 31, 2019
Community, News & Updates
Future Home of CJUC Radio CJUC FM “The Juice” CJUC community radio site overlooking downtown Whitehorse Yukon from Haeckel Hill Open Source North 60 Our Second Annual OSN60 event was well attended with guests from all across Canada coming to Whitehorse. There was a diverse mix of languages including regional indigenous dialects and far away […]
Read moreStop Wasting Time 🕔
October 4, 2018
News & Updates
Grass Roots Radio Conference Portland, Oregon – Oct 5 -7 Bill Polonsky, our training manager from the frozen city of Whitehorse Yukon and Adam Brody, marketing and business development will be delivering a joint presentation and hands on demonstration. Raspberry Pi Pyrate Radio — Open Source EAS Friday October 5 at 9:30 AM. Join us […]
Read moreTrevor Baylis Wind-up Radio Inventor 📻
March 5, 2018
News & Updates
The Inspiration Behind OpenBroadcaster For me, the story of Trevor Baylis has always been a remarkable source of inspiration. Trevor’s deep passion for radio and humanitarian innovation motivated me to develop solutions that empower communities worldwide. Though I never had the chance to meet him in person, his influence left a lasting mark on my […]
Read moreAlertPlayer Axia Livewire RTP Protocol 🔊
January 23, 2018
Developer Resources, News & Updates
OpenBroadcaster releases Open Source software to provide Livewire\RTP Support with Axia Audio over IP (AoIP) consoles. This exciting added functionality presents the opportunity to easily field, deploy and integrate standalone AlertPlayer into the AoIP broadcast chain with CAP EAS emergency alerts. This innovation builds on the suite of web-enabled general software and automation appliances with […]
Read moreHow did I get here in radio land? 📻
January 23, 2018
Community, News & Updates
Rob Hopkins – Tagish, Yukon Back in 1989 – 1993 I was able to save up and take off with my bicycle and spend a few years traveling around the world, through China, India, South East Asia and Europe. I was able to subsidize my traveling and live the “Yukon dream” by spending 6 months […]
Read moreOpen Source CAP Developed in Canada ⚠️
September 5, 2016
News & Updates, Open Source
OpenBroadcaster occupies a unique space in the marketplace as the only company in North America that offers a full suite radio automation and media asset management software package equipped with its own emergency messaging system adhering to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) CAP-CP History Aug 29, 2014 the CRTC – 2012-44 – Mandatory Alert Notification […]
Read moreYukon Companies Deploy Radio Network 📻
August 31, 2016
News & Updates
For Immediate Release Aug 31, 2016 OpenBroadcaster Inc and Computerisms Corporation are pleased to have played a part in a project spearheaded by SSI Micro and the Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) to introduce its latest public service, the Kitikmeot Radio Network (KRN). The pilot project was launched July 9th and was timed to coincide with […]
Read moreWhitehorse Trade Show 📢
April 26, 2016
Community, News & Updates
New Features Broadcast Lock down. From a web browser, one click puts your station in lock down, disabling all playout and functions from DJs that are overstepping policy for offensive material. Plays the Default Playlist assigned to station service so there is no dead air. Thanks to Pierre@CHMA – Attic Broadcasting Sackville for this idea. […]
Read moreRadio in Kitikmeot Nunavut 📻
February 14, 2016
Case Studies, Community, News & Updates, Radio Automation
Regional Radio Pilot Project – Cambridge Bay, Nunavut KITIKMEOT INUIT ASSOCIATION AND SSI MICRO TO COLLABORATE ON REGIONAL RADIO PILOT PROJECT Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, June 11th, 2015 The Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) and SSI Micro are very pleased to announce a collaborative partnership to launch a Regional Radio Pilot Project in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot region. The […]
Read moreCommunity Media Convergence 📢
November 18, 2015
Events & Webinars, News & Updates
Community Media Conference OpenBroadcaster is busy preparing to attend Commedia at Carlton University Ontario Nov 22 – 24 Stop by and say hello to Jake one of the original lead developers for OpenBroadcaster and my nephew Christopher Nash at commediaconverge.ca They will have a table participating at the technology fair and presenting about our work […]
Read moreOB Summer of Code 💡
August 12, 2015
Community, Developer Resources, News & Updates, Open Source
Summer at OpenBroadcaster How is everyone making out this summer? Not too buggy or smoky? We have some exciting news to announce about our new ecommerce site to create on demand streaming mount points and services. There is also work being done to include some educational video. Stay Tuned for launch details early this fall. […]
Read moreGAATES Emergency CAP Signage ⚠️
April 29, 2015
News & Updates
CFET CJHJ GAATES Signage Pelmorex Testing March 10, 2015 The pilot project test started out with a couple of bumps. My team worked through these problems enabling both radio stations in Tagish and Haines Junction to each receive and broadcast the emergency messages within the 2 hour testing window. The LCD screen in Tagish Recreation […]
Read moreEmergency Radio and TV Testing 📻
March 11, 2015
News & Updates
Invitation for Emergency Radio and TV testing Tagish and Haines Junction Yukon On March 10, 2015 between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm Pacific daylight savings time Yukon Emergency Measures Organization will be conducting two live to air broadcast intrusive tests of the Yukon Emergency Public Alerting System in Tagish and Haines Junction, Yukon in conjunction […]
Read moreOn Thin Ice: Emergency Preparedness 📢
February 10, 2015
Events & Webinars, News & Updates
Media Release 9 Feb 2015 In 2013, the Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) launched the On Thin Ice (OTI) Project. Funded by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program, the project seeks to protect lives and improve the security, well-being, and inclusion of persons with disabilities (physical, cognitive and sensory) and […]
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