Accessible, ownable meeting video, without five vendors.
Residents should be able to watch a meeting on any device, find the moment they care about and read accurate captions. Your clerk shouldn’t need four systems to make that happen. Cablecast streams, captions, chapters and publishes your meetings from one platform, and the record stays yours.
ADA Title II
The accessibility deadline is a date, not a someday.
Every resident deserves to follow their local government, including those who are hard of hearing, have low vision, or who need to watch in another language.
ADA Title II now sets that expectation in law, with WCAG 2.1 AA compliance dates for larger entities in 2027 and smaller entities and special districts in 2028. Cablecast builds that access into how you publish.
- Who counts
Populations of 50,000 or more hit 2027.
Everyone else, including special districts, follows in 2028.
- What it requires
Captions, audio description and navigable video.
Auto-captions alone have not held up in audits.
- The backlog
The archive counts, not just new meetings.
The further back your record goes, the earlier you need to start.
- 2027
- Larger public entities
- 2028
- Small entities & special districts
ADA Title II · WCAG 2.1 AA
Built-in
Access built into how you publish, not bolted on after.
Accessibility shouldn’t be a scramble before an audit or a project you bolt on at the end. With Cablecast, it’s just part of publishing.
- Captions
Human-verifiable, not just auto.
Captions that hold up where auto-captions fall short, and where an audit looks.
- Translation
Multi-language, so more residents follow along.
The meeting reaches the households that don’t speak English at home.
- Chapters
On-demand video linked to the agenda.
Meetings that work for everyone, and a record ready for any audit.
Purpose-built
The video specialist your software suite doesn’t have.
Enterprise platforms do a little bit of everything. When it comes to something as complicated as video, that gets you something good enough to check a box, not built to excel.
The all-in-one suite
- Video is one module among thirty
- Auto-captions, good enough to check a box
- No cable channel, no EPG
- Support that has never run a station
Purpose-built for local government
- Video is the whole product
- Captioned, translated, described, indexed
- Cable, web and apps from one schedule
- Built for staff and viewers alike
Reliable, accessible video takes specialists. Cablecast is the only multi-platform video solution purpose-built for local government.
Own your record
The record stays yours.
You keep the master.
Your meetings live on your platform, not licensed to a third party who can remove them.
Findable, forever.
Chaptered video with agenda attachments so residents and staff jump straight to the item they need.
An archive that holds up.
The official record stays complete, searchable and under your control for as long as you need it.
Video Ownership
Free video isn’t free when it’s your public record.
YouTube is a fine place to also be. It’s a risky place to only be. Here’s what governments, districts and stations tell us they lose when it’s their only home.
| What matters | YouTube only | Cablecast |
|---|---|---|
| Ownership of the record | Licensed to the platform; joint custody | You keep the master. |
| Ads on official content | Runs ads you don’t control | No third-party ads. |
| Takedowns | Meetings pulled for background music, etc. | Nothing gets reported by strangers or bots. |
| Captions for audit | Auto-captions (insufficient) | Human-verifiable + translation. |
| Cable channel & EPG | None | Full linear playout. |
| Your brand | YouTube’s chrome | Your app, your watch pages. |
What you get
From agenda to published record, in one flow.
Four steps, no hand-offs between vendors and no re-uploading. The accessible record is finished when the meeting is.
Attach the agenda
So viewers navigate the meeting by item.
Stream it live
To cable, web, and apps together.
Caption & chapter automatically
As part of publishing.
Publish the accessible record
To your portal with no extra steps.
Reach residents
Meet residents where they already watch.
Not everyone tunes to the government access channel anymore. Cablecast puts the same meeting on cable, your website and OTT/mobile at once, so residents can follow their local government from the couch, the commute or the kitchen table. One publish, every screen.
- Cablelinear channel + EPG
- Webbranded VOD library
- AppsRoku · Apple TV · Fire TV
- Livemeetings & events
- Recordaccessible archive
Program once · publish everywhere
Alternatives
How Cablecast compares.
Two conversations we have most often with cities and counties evaluating their options.
… days to April 26, 2027.
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Customer stories
Cities and counties already doing this.
Customers
Cities and counties across the country trust Cablecast.
- 50
- states, coast to coast
- 25+
- years in public-sector video
- US
- based support team
“In a two-person shop like our station, every minute counts. Cablecast has delivered a 50% time savings for program scheduling versus our previous automation system.”