Can I pick your brains?

I'd like to look into broadcasting our once a week class live (and then have it available as an archive) through the MAC products. It seems to me that the Xserve and broadcaster software would work for us, however, I have no training and I'm pretty sure it's not as easy as it appears! Does anyone have any experience with this process?
We currently have an audio/video production company doing this for us, but I think we could do it more cost effectively with higher quality if I could figure out the right way to do this.
First I need to find out if it's doable, then I have to look into training.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

It's pretty easy, truthfully. And Broadcaster works pretty well... though products like Wirecast are even better.
Read the links linked to on this page -- Mobile Streaming and Streaming Backbone:
http://www.apple.com/education/streamingsolution/

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