Airshift

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A block of continuous broadcast time, often four or six hours.

    "Announcer respondents most frequently worked a daily four-hour airshift (M = 4.23, s = 1.28; Mo = 4) , as either a morning daypart announcer (n = 60) or as an afternoon daypart announcer (n = 34)"

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"Announcer respondents most frequently worked a daily four-hour airshift (M = 4.23, s = 1.28; Mo = 4) , as either a morning daypart announcer (n = 60) or as an afternoon daypart announcer (n = 34)"

Etymology

From air + shift.

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