Wireless Mic Group Lays Out Basic Principles for Post-Incentive Auction World
The FCC should preserve one vacant TV channel for use by licensed and unlicensed wireless microphones after the TV incentive auction, and allow unlicensed mics to operate in some portion of the duplex gap, said the Performing Arts Wireless Microphone…
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Working Group in an FCC filing posted Friday. The letter to the five commissioners outlines the working group’s recommendations for wireless mic operations following the auction. Allowing performing arts groups using 50 or more wireless devices to apply for a Part 74 license is a good step, but doesn’t go far enough, the group said. “To consider performing arts entities that use fewer than 50 wireless devices to be non-professional, and therefore ineligible to register their uses in the geo-location database, is a false assumption,” the working group said. “The majority of professional, not-for-profit theatres, symphony orchestras, presenting organizations, dance and opera companies, professional training programs and even touring Broadway productions across this country use fewer than 50 wireless devices on a regular basis.” The issue is critical to the performing arts sector, the working group said. Thousands of performances “are held by professional performing arts organizations each year and the use of wireless microphones is both essential to producing high-quality performances and also mitigates against significant public safety concerns,” it said. “Professional wireless capability, with successful interference protection, and sufficient spectrum to operate, is essential to our sector.” The filing was posted in docket 12-268.