Airdate

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The scheduled time for a program to be transmitted over television or radio is crucial to its audience engagement and media strategy
2. It refers to the appointed moment when a specific broadcast content is made available to viewers or listeners
3. The predetermined time for a specific broadcast to occur denotes when content is officially available to an audience across various platforms

Etymology: "Airdate" is a plain compound: "air" joined to "date," with the "air" here meaning radio or television transmission. The meaning is a broadcast time, the day and hour when a programme is first transmitted over the airwaves. The word is a modern formation built from two ordinary English words rather than from older roots, so its history is essentially the history of "air" in the sense of broadcasting, which became common once radio and then television made transmission a routine part of everyday life.

Synonyms: broadcast date, transmission date, release date, schedule, program date