1
: the time or any part of the time when a radio or television station is on the air
2
: the time at which a radio or television broadcast is scheduled to begin
Examples of airtime in a Sentence
The committee plans to buy radio airtime for the campaign ads.
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The biggest of them all, Joe Rogan, spent the final weeks of the campaign giving many hours of fawning airtime to Trump—and to his running mate, J. D. Vance, and his key allies, such as Elon Musk—before endorsing Trump on the eve of the election.
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Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
That sketch, coming just before the episode’s closing performance by Cypress Hill, was the hour’s peak, containing all the promise of petty obsessions afforded airtime in a chorus of besuited actors shouting a monologue as one.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
If the Israel-Hamas war doesn't get airtime during Trump's speech, that, too, could be telling about the president's focus.
—Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
West purchased airtime during the Super Bowl for a Yeezy commercial, which featured him in a dentist’s chair asking people to go to the company’s website.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2025
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Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
That sketch, coming just before the episode’s closing performance by Cypress Hill, was the hour’s peak, containing all the promise of petty obsessions afforded airtime in a chorus of besuited actors shouting a monologue as one.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
If the Israel-Hamas war doesn't get airtime during Trump's speech, that, too, could be telling about the president's focus.
—Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
West purchased airtime during the Super Bowl for a Yeezy commercial, which featured him in a dentist’s chair asking people to go to the company’s website.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Airtime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airtime. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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