How to Use airtime in a Sentence

airtime

noun
  • The committee plans to buy radio airtime for the campaign ads.
  • This trait of ‘equal airtime’ is one of the is one of the hallmarks of high performing teams.
    Alain Hunkins, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Fruits and vegetables get a lot of airtime this time of year, and for good reason.
    Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Our bush plane pilot, an old-timer with decades of airtime, gave us the safety speech.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • This story has been corrected to say the show's airtime is 12:37 a.m.
    Lynn Elber, Chron, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The group has already reserved close to $3 million in TV airtime ahead of the April 1 budget deadline.
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • With protest songs unable to gain airtime, artists must stick to social media.
    John Arterbury, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But, at the time, if a prepaid cellphone owner did not have any airtime, the call could not be completed.
    Toby Shapshak, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Once the strikes were over, the network then decided to keep the show at 90 minutes, so the new season 36 will be running at the longer airtime anyway.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The other sisters get some airtime in these first two episodes, although not nearly as much as Kim.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2022
  • This was echoed to me recently by a colleague who said even their C-level client couldn’t get airtime with their boss.
    Jo Ilfeld, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • Ken and Mayim are set to share airtime for regular in-season episodes.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2022
  • But give Cole credit for not pulling a, uh, Puffy, and demanding airtime on her latest project.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But such struggles get little airtime in McAlevey’s work.
    Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Keep reading for more about Fargo season five’s premiere date and airtime, how to watch the TV show with and without cable and more.
    Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
  • That was all fine and good before the age of streaming when all of a sudden airtime was no longer that much of a meaningful construct anymore.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Her music has not been getting much airtime on those stations.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Most models come with two rechargeable batteries, and each will give you roughly 10 minutes of airtime or less—even those on the high end.
    Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Backers and opponents of Issue 1 have bought the equivalent of wall-to-wall airtime for the final week before the election.
    cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Radio stations refused to give airtime to Black artists, while even the early years of MTV were alarmingly white.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Timing relative to taping date, if not live, airdate and the amount of airtime to be proffered is pre-agreed upfront.
    Merilee Kern, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2022
  • Protasiewicz' campaign has booked $6 million worth of airtime in the same period.
    Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This year is just the third that all of the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournaments got national airtime.
    Katie C. Reilly, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Never Back Down also has almost $1.4 million worth of airtime reserved for the future, though that is subject to change.
    Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 31 July 2023
  • The funniest Super Bowl ads Some of the biggest brands in America shelled out $7 million apiece for just 30 seconds of airtime.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This brief encounter did not sit well with some viewers, who believe the Pearson stepdad deserved more airtime.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 18 May 2022
  • Also adopt systems where people have equal time to speak within meetings, rather than those with the most power consuming most of the airtime.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Between now and then, though, Democrats have booked $3.7 million worth of airtime, while Republicans have just $2 million booked.
    Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 30 June 2022
  • Politicians, writers, and thinkers competed for airtime and print space.
    Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • Snippets of Thatcher’s speech share airtime with news reports of people taking to the streets during Jean’s morning commute.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2023

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