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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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But Kylie was already gone, leaving only dead air at the end of the line.
Radio producers consider dead air time even more of a sin than their television counterparts do.
We had to build it that way because in the broadcast world, dead air is a sin.
Since we get about ten of these throughout the film, that means there are almost 50 seconds of blank, dead air on the disc.
I wonder just how much of the constant stream of inane chat that drives me nuts on TV, or on the radio, is down to the need to avoid dead air?
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.

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