Wireless mic maker Shure said expanding Part 74...
Wireless mic maker Shure said expanding Part 74 license eligibility and database registration as part of TV incentive auction rules “will be critical to professional users as the amount of UHF spectrum available to wireless microphone operations is sharply reduced…
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due to implementation of the incentive auctions and spectrum rebanding.” Shure representatives met with various FCC officials on the rules, according to an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1iOJqte). “The Commission should avoid definitions that rely on narrow, inflexible categories such as building dimensions, number of microphones used, etc.,” Shure said. “Given that identical equipment is deployed across diverse user categories, we also suggested that the Commission avoid rule definitions that would identify or exclude productions that would be eligible or not be eligible for a license based on the type of event, such as limitations on non-broadcast, entertainment, religious, corporate, civic and government events.” Venue owners and operators, as well as event producers, responsible engineers, performers and professional sound equipment providers all should be allowed to apply for a license, Shure said.