Definition of "airdate" []

• The date on which a program is scheduled to be broadcast. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Simpsons animates its cartoons months in advance of the episode's airdate, meaning they would have had to do some last-minute scrambling to put this on the air so soon."
• "The episode is currently in production and no airdate has been set."
• "It might be because the airdate coincides with the release of Diamond's new DVD, shot at his New York concert."