anchorwoman
a female news presenter
TRANSLATION
anchorwoman = eine Nachrichten-Moderatorin, z.B. der Tagesthemen anchor = Anker --- GOOGLE INDEX anchorwoman: approximately 370,000 hits anchorman: approximately 2,800,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"For example, having a Turkish ANCHORWOMAN needs to become a normal thing. We need more reporters who themselves know the immigrants' world and can convey it. The media have an obligation here."
(German integration minister Maria Böhmer in Der Spiegel English edition)
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The 24-hour news network CNN apologised yesterday for "audio difficulties" that led to a female presenter's bathroom conversation being aired during a live broadcast of a speech by President George Bush… Viewers were unexpectedly distracted when Mr Bush's address became intermingled with a conversation between CNN ANCHORWOMAN Kyra Phillips and an unidentified woman.
(The London Independent)
(German integration minister Maria Böhmer in Der Spiegel English edition)
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The 24-hour news network CNN apologised yesterday for "audio difficulties" that led to a female presenter's bathroom conversation being aired during a live broadcast of a speech by President George Bush… Viewers were unexpectedly distracted when Mr Bush's address became intermingled with a conversation between CNN ANCHORWOMAN Kyra Phillips and an unidentified woman.
(The London Independent)
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anchorwoman
noun
- a woman who is the main news reader on a television or radio news programme
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Anchor, comes from the Latin ancora and is related to the Greek ankyra. The original Old English spelling was ancor. The "ch” was added relatively late in the 16th century. The figurative sense of something that provides stability or security is from 1382.
The term "anchorman” first surfaced in 1909 and was used to describe the last man on a tug-of-war (Tauziehen) team. And in 1934 the word was applied to the last person to run in a relay race (Staffellauf).
The term anchorman was first used to describe a television or radio news presenter in the 1950s in the U.S. In 1976, the U.S. got its first anchorwoman of a major television network when Barbara Walters was chosen to co-anchor the ABC (American Broadcasting Corp.) evening news. At that time, ABC was one of the three national news networks that also included NBC (National Broadcasting Corp.) and CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System).
The U.S. meanwhile boasts five major television news networks with the addition of CNN and Fox Broadcasting, all of which employ male and female news anchors or anchorpersons (in the age of political correctness, anchorman and anchorwoman are gradually making way for genderless terms).
(sources: The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology, www.bbc.co.uk)
noun
- a woman who is the main news reader on a television or radio news programme
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Anchor, comes from the Latin ancora and is related to the Greek ankyra. The original Old English spelling was ancor. The "ch” was added relatively late in the 16th century. The figurative sense of something that provides stability or security is from 1382.
The term "anchorman” first surfaced in 1909 and was used to describe the last man on a tug-of-war (Tauziehen) team. And in 1934 the word was applied to the last person to run in a relay race (Staffellauf).
The term anchorman was first used to describe a television or radio news presenter in the 1950s in the U.S. In 1976, the U.S. got its first anchorwoman of a major television network when Barbara Walters was chosen to co-anchor the ABC (American Broadcasting Corp.) evening news. At that time, ABC was one of the three national news networks that also included NBC (National Broadcasting Corp.) and CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System).
The U.S. meanwhile boasts five major television news networks with the addition of CNN and Fox Broadcasting, all of which employ male and female news anchors or anchorpersons (in the age of political correctness, anchorman and anchorwoman are gradually making way for genderless terms).
(sources: The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology, www.bbc.co.uk)
