Churches may face fines for wireless mics

Jul 30, 2010
by Erin Roach

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Churches could face six-figure fines if they continue to use wireless microphones that operate within a spectrum the Federal Communications Commission has set aside for public safety entities.

"Certain wireless microphones have operated in frequencies that are needed for public safety. When these microphones were first designed, the frequencies they used were in between the frequencies that television stations used to broadcast television programs," the FCC explained. the rest