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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 driverless on Tuesday August 14 2018, @10:51AM
Another thing that's weird about this is that it's a problem that could only occur in the US. The entire rest of the world (to a rough approximation) does just fine on something like B1, B3, B5, B7, and B38-41 or so (done from memory, excuse omissions). Only the US needs a pile of bizarro frequencies that no-one else does because... I dunno. Why?