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Did anyone else get the impression the newsman was an American faking a continental accent?

The newsman is Kevin Sanders[1] an Australian TV journalist and presenter. He's not particularly well known, but he was a newsreader for GTV 9 (Melbourne) and a presenter for A Current Affair back in the 70s.

His accent is the "broadcast accent" that was cultivated at the time. If you can lay your hands on a copy of Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously[2] you'll hear a young Mel Gibson switch between his normal and a broadcast accent for his scenes in the recording booth.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467242/

[2] https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11541-the-year-of-living-da...

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kevin_Sanders

"Sanders' CNN reports on Nitinol, a new metal energy conversion system won the US Engineer's Award for Broadcasting Excellence. His follow-up articles in Science Digest were translated in German and republished in Japanese by Japan Times in their annual selection of the world's best science reports. Sanders is working on a follow-up article and an update documentary for world release on new and startling disclosures on the origins and potential of Nitinol. )...

Actually he was an American faking a Mid-Atlantic accent (which everybody faked, because it was a made up accent): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

Actually it's an Australian accent.

Mid-Pacific I'd call it.

It's the cultivated Australian accent. It's relatively uncommon and is barely spoken by anyone under the age of 50.

Definitely looks and sounds like a 60/70s ABC (Australian Broadcasting corporation) science segment. Wonder if they still have something similar

Oh like the cultivated non-vulgar Chilean accent, mild version of the accent. Dying breed.

I'm wondering what a continental English accent would be. English as spoken by Northern Europeans as a second language?

No worries, I got your meaning.

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