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What is dead air?

What is dead air? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic, broadcasting) An unintended interruption in a radio broadcast during which there is no sound; a similar interruption of a television broadcast in which there is neither sound nor a video signal.
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McDermott and Margulies leave a lot of dead air in their commentaries, but the featurettes are enlightening.
Radio producers consider dead air time even more of a sin than their television counterparts do.
To avoid panicking its audience by having any dead air at all, between songs in individual sets it'll cut away to interviews with other bands.
We had to build it that way because in the broadcast world, dead air is a sin.
But Kylie was already gone, leaving only dead air at the end of the line.
Move the slider on your media player forward to avoid the 7 or so minutes of dead air.

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