Case Study: Broadmoor Baptist Church achieves reliable, HD-quality Facebook Live streaming with Wowza Video (ClearCaster)

Broadmoor Baptist Church - Customer Case Study

Wowza Media Systems customer Broadmoor Baptist Church, a century-old congregation in Shreveport with weekend attendance around 2,000 and 55 years of TV broadcasting, wanted to expand reach via Facebook Live. Although they had a professional multi-camera studio and streamed successfully to their smartphone app, attempts to stream to Facebook using Wirecast caused bandwidth bottlenecks, buffering, audio clipping and connection failures—issues made harder to manage because production is largely volunteer-run and needed to be simple to operate.

Broadmoor added the Wowza ClearCaster appliance and immediately saw steadier bandwidth utilization, much higher-quality video and audio, and a dramatic reduction in streaming errors. ClearCaster integrated into their existing Blackmagic ATEM/Wirecast workflow, is easy for volunteers to use, and provides real-time viewer feedback—resulting in reliable HDTV-like Facebook Live broadcasts, stronger online engagement, and greater ability to connect congregants remotely.

Broadmoor Baptist Church

Allen Hendrix

Minister of Communications