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Great band on the radio? (6)

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I believe the answer is:

airing

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'radio?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'great band on' is the wordplay.
'great' becomes 'ai' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'band' becomes 'ring' (synonyms).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'ai'+'ring'='AIRING'

'the' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for airing that I've seen before include "Showing" , "Exposure" , "Broadcasting" , "Expressing (an opinion) publicly" , "Broadcast" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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