News and news presenting has come a long way. Gone are the scripted times of news reading with news readers, looking like they would go to sleep any moment, would drone on giving the highlights on the days events. The arrival of satellite and cable tv changed everything and made the business of news a major money crunching tool. With passing years, news started becoming much more category specific and thus gave rise to more channels that provided entertainment and knowledge of their specific spheres. Sports, entertainment, current affairs, all started to be hosted at their own specific domains and catered for their selected audience.
Sports have always had a huge fan base and enthusiasts are always interested in sourcing more knowledge about their favorite sports. Several media giants went ahead into several alliances to gain greater coverage of sports events that were being kept in areas beyond their network and began broadcasting them on their own networks.
This gave them an increased 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 in the realm of sports. Now sports channels have dedicated news channels that cover and bring for their viewers not just games but also sports reviews, statistical game analysis, player updates as well as their performance reviews too.
Most of these sports channels do compete against each other 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 do everything to stay at the top.
One such news provider that created a huge influence on news viewing was in the year 2000 when Naked News was released. This program was released as being 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 while they read the news and presented their segments.
Naked News began with only one anchor, Victoria Sinclair, who presented all of the sections of this program. She continues to be an integral 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 absence of a marketing and advertising strategy.
These folks were popularized by 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 help keep the format interesting. Following a crash of the internet boom, just one segment of the program could possibly be viewed for free and eventually by 2004 the entire program was changed into a members only one without any segments available for free access.
The naked sports news presenters have been very popular and also have been featured in a number of tv programs and also have also been featured in many newspapers and magazines.
