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airshift

noun

Etymology

From air + shift.

  1. derived from *skey-✻ — “to cut, divide, separate, part”
  2. derived from *skeyb-✻ — “to separate, divide, part”
  3. inherited from *skiftijaną✻
  4. inherited from sċiftan — “to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”
  5. inherited from schiften
  6. inherited from schyft
  7. compounded as airshift — “air + shift”

Definitions

  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)
    • Canty's daily hour-long airshift on WQMC does not involve control over any other WQMC programming nor any of the station's policies.
    • My first gig at KMPX was a six-hour airshift each night.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for airshift. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA