anchorman
noun
an·chor·man
ˈaŋ-kər-ˌman 
1
: a person who is last: such as
a
: the member of a team who competes last
the anchorman on a relay team
b
: the student who has the lowest scholastic standing in a graduating class
2
: a broadcaster (as on a news program) who introduces reports by other broadcasters and usually reads the news
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His brother and former TV news anchorman, Fred Van Amburg, worked on San Francisco’s KGO-TV in the 1970s and ’80s and was famously known on air as just Van Amburg.
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Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024
During his 1990s run as SNL’s fake anchorman, the comedian homed in on Simpson in his relentless pursuit of the perfect punchline — one that likely cost him his dream gig.
—Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024
After Kennedy was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, MacNeil managed to commandeer one of two pay phones in an anteroom and fed NBC anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley updates all day.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
Aside from the anchormen, a handful of TV celebrity interviewers (Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace), and the occasional newspaper columnist (George Will), virtually no one in the news business was a brand in 1987.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
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Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024
During his 1990s run as SNL’s fake anchorman, the comedian homed in on Simpson in his relentless pursuit of the perfect punchline — one that likely cost him his dream gig.
—Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024
After Kennedy was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, MacNeil managed to commandeer one of two pay phones in an anteroom and fed NBC anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley updates all day.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
Aside from the anchormen, a handful of TV celebrity interviewers (Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace), and the occasional newspaper columnist (George Will), virtually no one in the news business was a brand in 1987.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
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anchorman
noun
an·chor·man
ˈaŋ-kər-ˌman
1
: one who competes or is placed last
2
: an anchorperson who is a man
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