linkman

British

/ ˈlɪŋkmən /

noun

a presenter of a television or radio programme, esp a sports transmission, consisting of a number of outside broadcasts from different locations
another word for linkboy

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They strolled down the road for a few moments in silence, passing a linkman on the way.

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And this was so thick that late fashionables, riding home in their grand carriages, were preceded each carriage by a pair of linkmen.

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I am stopping the way, and the linkman is getting quite excited over it.'

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The flash of a linkman's torch revealed Hortense sitting languid and scornful between the foreign countess and that milliner's dummy of a lieutenant.

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I expected, I think, to see the dreaded figure of the linkman.

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