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an inadvertent interruption in a broadcast during which there is no sound

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He published his first novel, DEAD AIR: a Glenn Beckert Mystery in September 2017.
Dead Air reports that while firing standard 7.62 ammunition, the Sandman L produces a 31 dB sound reduction.
The stations have automated systems, but with the power to the building having to be shut off, those systems could not work and all that was heard on the airwaves was dead air.
Sipa says a new blowing valve block is more compact than before, and has 35 percent less dead air volume.
Dead Air by Iain Banks, 2002 Dead Air, chapter one.
And fair play to Alex Jones too, she did her best to fill all the pregnant pauses with something, anything, other than dead air.
Perhaps the plethora of pictures makes up for the dead air that makes up most of The Saturdays' back catalogue.
The local radio show "Dead Air" will celebrate 20 years on KLCC-FM with music by Cast of Clowns, free cake and door prizes Thursday at Cozmic Pizza.
The heat moves away quicker, and allows the cooler air to have a better effect since the "dead air" problem has been completely dealt with.
If "A Podium to Occupy" strips television of any artifice, the chapter "Dead Air: That Dreaded Silence" moves in the opposite direction.
Dead Air is a chilling tale guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Hope you like it," Contactmusic quoted guitarist Jonny Greenwood as having written on the band's Dead Air Space blog.
"Left 4 Dead" is divided into four campaigns with B-movie titles like "Dead Air" and "Death Toll" that are populated with a quartet of stock characters--the grizzled Vietnam vet, the horror film-loving college student, etc.--a creepy soundtrack full of staccato piano notes, dark rooms lit only by flashlight, and amusingly cliched dialogue ("I can't believe we made it!"; "Son, we just crossed the street.").
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