End of wireless mics in the UK?
p2pnet.net News:- Will plans by UK communications regulator Ofcom to auction Channel 69, currently used for wireless microphones, to the highest bidder in 2012 spell the end of West End musicals?
Andrew Lloyd Webber thinks so.
“He claimed producers would not have the money to compete against the likes of the mobile phone networks to buy the spectrum,” says ThisIsLondon.
Lloyd Webber first introduced the then revolutionary radio technology to the theatre in 1971 in his hit Jesus Christ Superstar, says the story.
“We can’t go back to the cabled microphones of the Fifties and Sixties,” he’s quoted as saying. “It would be like asking audiences to go back to a version of the musical Stone Age.”
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Also See:
ThisIsLondon – Auction of airwaves ‘will end musicals’, January 4, 200
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