Other forms: anchormen
An anchorman is the man who presents a news programme. The evening anchorman.
The job is holding the programme together rather than reporting anything. The word came from the anchor at the end of a relay team, which is where the sense of holding began.
1nounanchormanThe man who presents a news programme.
“The anchorman had read the news for nineteen years.”
anchorman is a presenter.
Anchor plus man, from the anchor who runs the final leg of a relay.
From anchor + man. Senses 1 and 4 derive from sense 2, sense 3 is literal.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA