airshift
airshift noun: a block of continuous broadcast time, often four or six hours.
Noun
airshift (plural airshifts)
- A block of continuous broadcast time, often four or six hours.
- Announcer respondents most frequently worked a daily four-hour airshift (M = 4.23, s = 1.28; Mo = 4) , as either a morning daypart announcer (n = 60) or as an afternoon daypart announcer (n = 34)1988, Steven Owen Shields, Creativity, Climate, and Creative Control in the Work of American Music Radio Announcers, page 113
- Canty's daily hour-long airshift on WQMC does not involve control over any other WQMC programming nor any of the station's policies.1992, FCC Record: A Comprehensive Compilation of Decisions, Reports, Public Notices and Other Documents of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States, volume 7, numbers 9-12, page 2577
Forms of airshift
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Origin of airshift
From air + shift.
Questions about airshift
- What does airshift mean?
- Airshift means a block of continuous broadcast time, often four or six hours.
- What part of speech is airshift?
- Airshift is a noun.
- What is the plural of airshift?
- The plural of airshift is airshifts.
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