go on the air
Example Sentences
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“I’m not going to go on the air and not give a damn about how Disney feels about something. I’m not irresponsible. But I am my own man.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024
“They developed this tradition where anyone who’s used his program to pay off all their debt can go on the air with him on the radio and do what’s called a ‘debt-free scream.’
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2024
“KUOW was right there in the building — a big, 100,000-watt FM station with a huge coverage footprint. But students were only allowed to go on the air a few minutes at a time.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2022
At a radio station, he found work as a janitor but made clear his ambition to go on the air.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2021
A present-day equivalent might be reproduced if the sound-effects man on Gangbusters and Walter Winchell should go on the air simultaneously, before a battery of powerful amplifiers.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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