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** A remote broadcast ran into trouble and went dead. Station manager Andy wanted to run some PSAs since that'd at least be something, but Les decided to go live with one of his irrelevant anti-communist speeches instead.

** There was a bomb scare at the station so DJs Johnny & Venus were sent to the broadcast tower to do their show. It turned out that the bomb was at the transmitter rather than at the station, so they suddenly went off the air. They had to field calls from confused listeners.

:::And Les was a little confused about how radio works.

Les: No. [[Completely Missing the Point|But I can include that in my update.]] }}

* ''[[Full House]]'': Used for a brief joke when some of the family is visiting Jesse and Joey at their job at the radio station. At one point, they all realize that nothing is being broadcast, and rather than allow the dead air, they ''all'' begin chattering, singing, etc. into the mic at the same time.

* In the ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode "Good Morning, Peoria", the air goes dead when an intimate conversation between the radio station owner and Sam (who has leapt into a DJ) extends past the end of the record. He picks it up well, though:

* Happens on the episode of ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'' when Dharma creates a pirate radio station. She gets into an argument with Greg for several seconds before realizing she's left dead air and panics, bringing out all the instruments she has on the table.

* ''[[SCTV]]'' once had an episode about an up-and-coming boxer who was slated to fight the champ on their station. The entire episode is spent hyping up the underdog, even making a short film about him. At the end, when the fight begins, the underdog is [[Curb Stomp Battle|knocked out by a single punch,]] leaving SCTV with nothing but dead air for the remainder of the program as they desperately looked for something, anything they could fill it with.

 

* This is the ending of the play Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian. The protagonist, Barry (a shock jock who has been dealing with progressively stranger callers all night) has a ''[[Freak-Out]]'' about how much the callers scare him and about how he doesn't want to do it anymore. He opens up the lines, we hear callers, he quickly hangs up on them, until a caller is nice to him and invites him to a house for a drink. He just stops talking, and his producer, Stu, prods him to speak. The last lines:

Barry: I guess... we're stuck with each other. This is Barry Champlain. }}