Initial broadcast on air for Italian youth (9)
I believe the answer is:
signorina
'italian youth' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'initial broadcast on air' is the wordplay.
'initial' becomes 'sign' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'broadcast' indicates an anagram.
'on'+'air'='onair'
'onair' is an anagram of 'orina'.
'sign'+'orina'='SIGNORINA'
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for signorina that I've seen before include "Italian miss" , "Miss Italy?" , "Foreign maid" , "Young lady from Rome?" , "young Italian woman" .)