The email blast from the head of my son and daughter's theater group relayed a frantic plea: "We need to raise $16,000 before the upcoming spring performances," Anya Wallach, the executive director of Random Farms Kids' Theater, in Westchester, New York, wrote in late May. If the money didn't materialize in time, she warned, there could be a serious problem with the shows: nobody would hear the actors.
Random Farms, and tens of thousands of other theater companies, schools, churches, broadcasters, and myriad other interests across the country, need to buy new wireless microphones. The majority of professional wireless audio gear in America is about to become obsolete, and illegal to operate. The story of how we got to this strange point involves politics, business, science, and, of course, money.
Story: https://www.wired.com/story/wireless-mics-radio-frequencies-fcc-saga/
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Tuesday August 14 2018, @08:13AM (1 child)
Yes, because copper plating an entire theater is cheaper than the replacement microphone equipment. So cheap in fact that you wonder why it's not done everywhere.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @02:42PM
Not to mention the problems you'll probably get if an emergency call by phone fails due to the Faraday cage. Or a doctor who attains the show doesn't get the message of being urgently needed.