eTech Ohio Ohio Government Telecommunications Services Operating Grant

Program Overview

Ohio Government Telecommunications Service (OGT), located in the Statehouse, is primarily responsible for the telecommunications needs of the three branches of state government. OGT is also charged with:

  • Managing the Ohio Channel, a service of Ohio's public broadcasting stations,
  • Handling teleconferences, 
  • Creating educational programming, 
  • Facilitating media connections within Capitol Square, 
  • Coordinating audio and video needs; and 
  • Operating a streaming media.

While providing telecommunications services for state government, OGT records and broadcasts sessions of the General Assembly, as well as Supreme Court sessions and press events. eTech Ohio provides a means for distributing this content through the Internet.