Miriles thought to herself - joined Rick in the anchor booth.

"But I'm up here in the anchor booth," he added.

For no pertinent reason, I was in the back of one of those anchor booths at the time.

"I think you're more likely to see a rhinoceros in the anchor booth."

The anchor booths atop rickety scaffolding, hollow cities unlikely to meet any local earthquake code, have their own hierarchy as well.

For the political conventions, Mr. Turner said, the CNN way is to build an anchor booth for one party's convention and then truck it to the other one.

Far above, floating in their anchor booths in the convention sky, the important network stars were interviewing important people about important political matters.

Everyone at CBS watched nervously Saturday night as the two men sat in the anchor booth together for the first time for a live convention preview.

First was his idea to fully anchor CNN's convention coverage from the convention floor, not the traditional anchor booth.

The anchor booth, so to speak, is the sparkling candy-and-popcorn counter.