A joint memorial, broadcast for the room
and everyone who couldn’t be in it.

On the morning of January 6, 2025, a wrong-way crash on US-27 near mile marker 85 took the lives of two young men, and injured a third passenger who would later succumb to her injuries. Coverage from CBS 12 News and the Boca Raton Tribune followed the survivors through the days that followed.

In the week that followed, the two families made a quiet, difficult decision together: rather than hold two separate services, they would hold a single joint memorial — one service, side by side, for the friends, families, classmates, and community members who needed to grieve together. It would be large. It would be public. And it would have to reach beyond the room.

The families and the funeral team reached out with a clear list: bring a real broadcast — not a phone on a tripod, not a single webcam feed — and make sure every person who wanted to be there, near or far, could be. The service would be held at the Boys and Girls Club of Belle Glade, FL, with musical tributes from family and friends, and a video package prepared as part of the program. Everything had to land live, in the room and online, with the same dignity.

We treated the venue as a broadcast venue for the day. The signal chain was designed to do one job and one job only: capture the service cleanly and put it on the air without a miss.

• 4K Multi-Camera. Multi-angle coverage of the stage, the room, the family, and the audience — cut live so online viewers saw the same service, not a single locked-off shot.
• RCF Audio P.A. system. A broadcast-grade loudspeaker rig tuned for music, vocals, and spoken word in a reverberant gym, so the room and the stream both heard the same thing.
• Microphone packages for the musical tributes. Instrument mic’ing for the band and proper mic’ing for the vocalist, mixed into the broadcast so the tribute performances translated for online viewers.
• Professional on-air lower thirds. Names, roles, and program cues displayed cleanly over the program feed — the same look used on televised services, applied with the restraint appropriate for the day.
• In-program tribute video package. A prepared video tribute was inserted into the live broadcast at the right moment, mixed back to the program feed seamlessly so the room and the online audience shared the same beat of the service.
• Bonded, redundant internet and local record. Multiple upstream paths and an on-site recording meant the same broadcast could be archived, re-cut, or rebroadcast after the live window — not just hope-it-stayed-up.

The service drew more than 800 mourners in person to the Boys and Girls Club of Belle Glade, FL, filling the floor and rising into the bleachers. Musicians and vocalists performed tributes. The prepared video package played as part of the program, picked up cleanly by the on-air feed. The broadcast held throughout the service.

The broadcast reached far beyond the room, drawing over 6,000 views on the replay and standing as the lasting online record of the day for the families and the wider community. Watch the full broadcast: Joint Memorial Service — full replay

Family-collected footage from the day: Facebook video — Jan 11th

• 800+ in attendance, broadcast without a miss. The room received a clean, dignified broadcast of the service they came to be part of.
• 6,000+ replay views on the republished broadcast. Friends, classmates, distant family, and community members who couldn’t travel were able to be present for the moment.
• A permanent record of the service. The republished broadcast remains online as the lasting record of the day for both families and the wider community.
• A broadcast pattern for memorial services. The same kit — 4 cameras, broadcast audio, on-air lower thirds, in-program tribute video — now travels to other memorial, funeral, and celebration-of-life events where the room is large or scattered.

A livestream of a memorial has to be two things at once: a clean broadcast and a respectful one. That starts with the gear, and ends with how the day is run. If you’re a family, a funeral director, or a community lead planning a service for someone who deserves to be remembered well, we’ll have that conversation with you directly — quietly, and on your schedule.

See the dedicated Funeral & Memorial Livestream page for the full offering.