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1930 Observer 28 Sept. 21 Graham MacNamee, the news-caster of our American newspaper newsreel, takes the part of an unseen dramatist.

1954 J. Thompson Hell of Woman (1990) xxii. 181 An inexperienced newscaster revealed that the serial numbers of the currency had been recorded.

1972 J. Wainwright Requiem for Loser viii. 171 He, too, momentarily disbelieved the B.B.C. newscaster... The wireless set continued to broadcast the news item.

1995 Nation 23 Jan. 108/1 Watch how a spinmaster's slogan, picked up by a local newscaster, winds up being mouthed to the public like arithmetical truth.

1959 New Statesman 21 Mar. 403/2 A quasi-newscaster, giving verbal trailers of coming attractions, does not fulfil this function.]

1966 Times 8 Mar. 4/5 An electric newscaster is to be erected in Piccadilly Circus. A newscaster was one of three illuminated signs for the Circus approved by the Minister..last month... Headline news bulletins..will be flashed direct from the Press Association.

1973 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. 14/2 The first business to become a victim, presumably unintentionally, of the Government's ban on outdoor illuminated display advertising is Newscaster Publicity, which runs the newscaster on the outside of the Swiss Centre in Leicester Square.