airtime
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈɛrˌtaɪm/
- Literature
:
tiempo de emisión
- The news channel allocated two hours of airtime for the special report on climate change.
- fill airtime
- provide airtime
Yeah, the more like the airtime you get, the more you show, the more FaceTime you get.
- Yeah, the more like the airtime you get, the more you show, the more FaceTime you get.
- Yeah, this one's often forgotten, and so it deserves a bit more airtime.
- This trend gives more airtime, more focus to drapey, flowy, dramatic outerwear.
- Can he could be garnering headlines, eating up airtime.
- When is Trump going to get his feelers hurt that his boss gets more recognition than he does in more airtime?
Examples
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Still, most of election night, especially early on, is spent filling airtime, waiting for news to report.
Blog text (3) -
I'll be asking the Networks for airtime on Monday night.
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Only the two major parties get airtime or funding enough to compete.
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Every artist looking for a hit hopes for airtime on the station.
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Are you selling ads on our airtime?
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I wrote promotional material urging clients to buy airtime on our live radio shows.
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Numerous private radio stations began to emerge, which encouraged local programming to fill airtime.
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Some public access channels share airtime like EWTN which is a religious channel based out of Michigan.
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Local musical content was suddenly in demand to fill airtime as new private radio stations vied for listeners and sponsorship.
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Surely the media behave irresponsibly often in the single-minded pursuit of headlines or airtime.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
7
3.1
The length of a movie, TV show, or performance from beginning to end
1
8.8
The total time of a film, show, or recording
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Airtime comes from the words air and time, literally 'time on the air'. So it means the amount of time a show, speech, or ad is broadcast on radio or TV.