off the air
idiom
of a radio or television station, etc.
: not broadcasting
The station is now off the air.
Examples of off the air in a Sentence
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Downey next stars in Oppenheimer, which hits theaters Friday, while Fallon's Tonight Show is currently off the air due to the Hollywood writers' strike.
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 17 July 2023
Questions remain after a 200-foot radio tower was stolen in an Alabama town, knocking a local AM station off the air.
—USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
That move outraged PiS, causing a weeks-long sit-in protest inside TVP’s headquarters and forcing its news channel off the air over Christmas.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 27 Jan. 2024
Since the theft has knocked the AM station off the air, WJLX is petitioning for the FCC to give it a waiver to continue to broadcast on the FM station, which is still on the air, Elmore said.
—Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
But the afternoon before the all-news format made its debut, a single-engine airplane lost in a storm smashed into the transmission tower, not far from La Guardia Airport in Queens, and knocked the station off the air.
—James Barron, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
After The Los Angeles Times reported that the HFPA had no Black members, Hollywood boycotted the organization and the 2022 Globes were booted off the air.
—Jake Coyle, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
The Smothers Brothers weren’t off the air for long, but their return, Smothers Brothers Summer Show, on ABC lacked its predecessor’s bite.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2023
The Golden Globes are looking to overcome years of controversy that forced the broadcast off the air in 2022.
—Conor Murray, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 17 July 2023
Questions remain after a 200-foot radio tower was stolen in an Alabama town, knocking a local AM station off the air.
—USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
That move outraged PiS, causing a weeks-long sit-in protest inside TVP’s headquarters and forcing its news channel off the air over Christmas.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 27 Jan. 2024
Since the theft has knocked the AM station off the air, WJLX is petitioning for the FCC to give it a waiver to continue to broadcast on the FM station, which is still on the air, Elmore said.
—Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
But the afternoon before the all-news format made its debut, a single-engine airplane lost in a storm smashed into the transmission tower, not far from La Guardia Airport in Queens, and knocked the station off the air.
—James Barron, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
After The Los Angeles Times reported that the HFPA had no Black members, Hollywood boycotted the organization and the 2022 Globes were booted off the air.
—Jake Coyle, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
The Smothers Brothers weren’t off the air for long, but their return, Smothers Brothers Summer Show, on ABC lacked its predecessor’s bite.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2023
The Golden Globes are looking to overcome years of controversy that forced the broadcast off the air in 2022.
—Conor Murray, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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