Talk:Dead air

message: I remember a radio mention years ago of a record named something like "three minutes of silence", re-issued under the name "Silent Knight". According to an announcer on an American Top 40-style programme, the disc was issued decades ago and never got any radio airplay, but got a fair amount of play on jukeboxes where it served as a placeholder if someone simply wanted to temporarily silence the machine.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any WP:RS on this novelty bit of vinyl-recorded dead air at the moment, so I can't add it to this page. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 01:40, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Here are references: , , . But since it was only used in jukeboxes and never broadcast, it's not an example of "dead air". - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:43, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silent Knight (45rpm vinyl disc) 

message: …added an in-markup emphatic note, and added inline citations. In rewriting the lede (so it matched a published esteemed dictionary definition), I replaced the one inaccurate MW citation with two—the correct MW citation and an Oxford citation. Hence, I reduced the citations by 33% (3 to 2), then doubled them (2 to 4), for an overall increase in the citations of 25%.  mdr
This also leaves is with approximately 25% of the verifiability expected under WP:VERIFY — with 4 of about 16 needed sourced identified. If the in-markup note to cease dumping unsourced material is heeded, at a pace of 4 citations added a year (the apparent current rate of improvement), we'll have a verifiable article some time after the next president is sworn in. Perhaps the campaign season will offer us entire atmospheres of dead air. We should be so fortunate. (About the article getting its sources I mean.)  Le Prof  Leprof 7272 (talk) 06:21, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: I tagged the article (PLEASE STOP DUMPING)

message: The article notes that for radio transmissions, absence of sound results in an unmodulated carrier (which holds at least for AM and FM; not sure about digital transmissions). For television however, if I understand correctly, when a black image is transmitted there are also still synchronization signals present, so it is not just an unmodulated carrier. I do think that an unmodulated TV carrier results in a black image though, although again I'm not enough in the know to be sure. Should this be discussed in the article? – gpvos (talk) 10:59, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unmodulated signals in television 

message: Host #2 was late, forcing Host #1 to stay at the microphone until Host #2 arrived and took over. Since there was no actual period of silence, this isn't a 'notable example' of dead air. - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chris Evans 

message: "In the U.S., dead air, if prolonged and occurring without permission, is an actionable offense that can result in fines from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)."
The citations provided are for enforcement actions against stations going "dark," that is, shutting down their transmitter, without following proper notification procedures and failing to meet the terms of their licensing.  
I am unable to find anything within 47 CFR Part 73 or any FCC documents that indicate dead air, in and of itself, is a violation.  It could of course lead to a violation for failure to provide station identification. CWRSTL (talk) 19:09, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, while the existing text was technically correct, it needed some clarification of what "prolonged" means in this context. Edited for clarity. - LuckyLouie (talk) 13:29, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regulations section citations are not accurate