SpectraRep Names New COO

• John McCoskey has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer at SpectraRep, a datacasting solutions provider for homeland security and public safety. McCoskey has more than 30 years of industry experience, most recently as the Founder of Eagle Hill Consulting. He previously served as EVP and Chief Technology Officer with the Motion Picture Association of America. McCoskey was also the first CTO at PBS and has also held senior positions at Comcast and Discovery Communications.

“John will be responsible for guidance, alignment and prioritization of SpectraRep strategy at a time when we are seeing incredible adoption of datacasting to improve public safety information sharing and as SpectraRep expands into public alerting,” said Mark O’Brien, President of SpectraRep. “His expertise in broadcast technology, coupled with his knowledge of the public television landscape will reinforce our course as law enforcement and first responders recognize the benefits of ATSC digital television transmission.”

McCoskey remarked, “I’m very pleased to be joining SpectraRep at this particular time because there’s such a tremendous opportunity to extend the community service mission of public television stations with datacasting. Using my background, experience and relationships in this domain, I will focus on implementing SpectraRep’s vision to pursue new and existing opportunities that help solve problems on the local level.”