News and news presenting has come a long way. Gone are definitely the scripted days of news reading with news readers, looking like they would fall asleep any moment, would drone on giving the highlights of the days events. The arrival of satellite and cable television changed everything and created the business of news a major money crunching tool. With passing years, news started becoming much more category specific and so gave rise to more channels that provided entertainment and knowledge in their specific spheres. Sports, entertainment, current affairs, all began to be hosted at their very own specific domains and catered for their selected audience.
Sports have always had a huge fan base and enthusiasts are always keen on sourcing information regarding their preferred sports. A number of media giants went ahead into several alliances to achieve greater coverage of sports events which were being held in areas beyond their network and began broadcasting them on their networks.
This gave them a larger viewership that translated into higher revenues. Gradually from being broadcasters of live or recorded games, these sports channels developed programs that covered everything and anything that one needed to know from the world of sports. Now sports channels have dedicated news channels that cover and provide for their viewers not just games but additionally sports reviews, statistical game analysis, player updates and their performance reviews as well.
Most of these sports channels do compete against one another trying for greater viewerships and take major efforts for making this agenda a reality. With new interactive show formats, to more engaging, attractive and intelligent presenters to sometimes giving complete makeovers for the channel, they actually do everything to stay on top.
One particular news provider that created a huge impact on news viewing was in the year 2000 when Naked News was released. This program was released as a internet based news service that featured a complete television newscast and ran 25 minute daily shows from Toronto. The highlight in this program was that the presenters stripped when they read the news and presented their segments.
Naked News began with only one anchor, Victoria Sinclair, who presented all of the parts of the program. She continues to be a part of Naked News. Some of its initial success could be credited to the free viewership of the channel, which did become immensely popular even in the lack of a marketing and advertising strategy.
They were popularized through the word-of mouth medium and increased in numbers from one to eight female anchors. The show also introduced a number of guest anchors to keep the format interesting. Following the crash in the internet boom, just one segment on the program could possibly be viewed free of charge and eventually by 2004 the entire program was turned into a members only one without any segments available for free access.
The naked sports news presenters have been extremely popular and have been featured in a number of television shows and also have also been featured in several newspapers and magazines.