News and news presenting has come a long way. Gone are the scripted days of news reading with news readers, looking like they might fall asleep at any time, would drone on giving the highlights on the days events. The advent 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 to their selected audience.
Sports have always had a huge fan base and enthusiasts are invariably keen on sourcing information regarding their favorite sports. A number of media giants went ahead into several alliances to achieve greater coverage of sports events that were being kept in areas beyond their network and began broadcasting them on their 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 required to know in the world of sports. Now sports channels have dedicated news channels which cover and provide for their viewers not only games but additionally sports reviews, statistical game analysis, player updates as well as their performance reviews as well.
A large number of sport shows 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 to the channel, they actually do everything to remain at the top.
One particular news provider that created a huge impact on news viewing was in the year 2000 when Naked News was released. The 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 merely one anchor, Victoria Sinclair, who presented all the sections of this program. She continues to be a part of Naked News. Some of its initial success could be credited towards the free viewership on the channel, which did become immensely popular even in the lack of a marketing and advertising strategy.
They were popularized by the word-of mouth medium and increased in numbers from a single to eight female anchors. The show also brought in a number of guest anchors to keep the format interesting. Following a crash of the internet boom, only one segment of the program could possibly be viewed for free and ultimately by 2004 the complete program was changed into a members only one with no segments accessible for free access.
The naked sports news presenters have also been very popular and have been featured in a number of television shows and have also been featured in several newspapers and magazines.