off air

Prepositional phrase

 * 1) Not broadcasting or transmitting on radio or television.
 * Channel 9 will be off air from 11 pm until 6 am.
 * The transmitter is off air after a fire.
 * 1) Not being, or so as not to be, broadcast or transmitted by radio or television.
 * After ten years, the TV series was taken off air.
 * Fortunately his offensive remarks were off air.