on-air

adjective

: appearing, used, or done on a radio or television broadcast

an on-air telephone call

our live, on-air fund-raiser

Examples of on-air in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Les Nessman's on-air reporting from the scene goes from a chipper holiday piece to complete chaos as the helicopter flying overhead with the station's holiday message to the city begins dropping turkeys down on the crowd below, as the rest of the horrified gang listens from inside the station. —Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025

Save for one unexpected on-air protest, his stint on the show went off without much hitch, giving Lochte the chance to do a bit of image rehab and learn a two-step along the way. —Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025

Jenna Bush Hager got an unexpected on-air surprise for her birthday. —Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025

Weatherly is cautious not to characterize this as an attempt to re-create KROQ circa 2005 — even if a lot of the music and the on-air talent is the same. —Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for on-air

• abwehr
• affair
• affaire
• airfare
• altair
• armchair
• aware
• beware
• bugbear
• carfare
• childcare
• compare