Representatives of Broadway discussed the importance of protecting...
Representatives of Broadway discussed the importance of protecting wireless mics in the 600 MHz band, in a meeting with members of the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force, said an ex parte filing at the commission. Among those attending was six-time…
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Tony award winner Harvey Fierstein. “Mr. Fierstein provided a first-hand, user’s perspective on the importance of wireless microphones, intercoms, and cue-and-control devices to today’s sophisticated theatrical productions,” the ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/15gXOcl). “Audiences accustomed to high-quality sound from motion pictures and home theatres demand the same level of aural experience in a professional theatre setting. Actors can provide subtle, nuanced performances with amplified sound that are impossible if they must strain to play to the back of the house. Stage movements would be dangerous or impossible with microphone cables trailing along."