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TV presenter
Answer for the clue "TV presenter ", 9 letters:
anchorman
Alternative clues for the word anchorman
- One presenting an unwelcome task left incomplete by crew
- A television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
- Newscast honcho
- One with breaking news
- Peter Jennings, e.g.
- TV presenter in a late 11th century church?
- Jim Lehrer, for instance
- 2004 Will Ferrell flim
Word definitions for anchorman in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anchorman \An"chor*man`\ ([a^ ng]"k[~e]r*m[a^]n`), n. a woman television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute. Male correlate of anchorwoman .
Usage examples of anchorman.
Near this anchorman hung a brass gong on a wooden frame, bolted right into the boat.
When the anchorman panted out a few Dwarvish words and smiled, Rhodry smiled in return, knowing a thanks when he heard it no matter what the language.
Garin said, then turned to the anchorman and spoke rapidly in Dwarvish.
The anchorman pulled the hooks free, then ran, leaping aboard just as the boat floated clear, nosing round into the current.
The anchorman, hooks in hand, stood at the prow, peering forward, tongue sticking out the side of his mouth in concentration.
With the anchorman clinging and leaning to the rope like a groom, the boat bucked like an angry horse, but they moved forward, creeping past the rough stone walls toward a small and distant patch of light.
Judging his distance the anchorman crouched, then leapt onto the jetty, wrapping his rope round a bollard while the oarsmen backed water.
The anchorman waited there, too, but instead of his flower of hooks, he carried a simple hawser.
When they pushed off, rowing in long smooth pulls, Rhodry began striking two-handed in a regular rhythm while the helmsman and anchorman both screamed and yelled and made every ungodly noise they could think of to drive the beasts away.
They swung her round, backing water frantically, and let the currents and tides bob her closer and closer Enj called something out in Dwarvish, slung his pack on board, and jumped down after it before the anchorman could throw him the rope.
But the decision, the anchorman thought sourly, was typical of Chuck Insen: once more an item of foreign news, whose emphasis Sloane favored, had gone into the discard.
Television viewers watching Sloane during a broadcast had the illusion that the anchorman was in, and part of, the newsroom.
Well, in the past, in any kind of contest between a network news 36 ARTHUR HAILEY anchorman and his executive producer, the anchor had invariably won, with the producer having to look for work elsewhere.
From an anchorman that kind of thing was expected-a matter of noblesse obligeeven though, where Partridge was concerned, Sloane did it without any great enthusiasm.
One Partridge report which was not aired involved a criticism of negative personal opinion presented in a news context by the venerable Walter Cronkite, then anchorman for CBS.