News and news presenting has come a long way. Gone are the scripted times of news reading with news readers, appearing 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 enterprise of news an important money crunching tool. With passing years, news started becoming much more category specific and so gave rise to more channels that provided entertainment and information in 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 keen on sourcing information regarding their preferred sports. Several 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 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 in the realm of sports. Now sports channels have dedicated news channels that cover and provide for their viewers not only games but additionally sports reviews, statistical game analysis, player updates and their performance reviews as well.
Most of these sport shows do compete against each other trying for greater viewerships and take major efforts to make 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 remain at the top.
One particular news provider that made a huge impact on news viewing was in the year 2000 when Naked News was launched. This program was launched 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 when they read the news and presented their segments.
Naked News began with merely one anchor, Victoria Sinclair, who presented all the parts of this program. She remains an integral part of Naked News. Some of its initial success could be credited to the free viewership on the channel, which did become immensely popular even in the absence of a marketing and advertising strategy.
These folks 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 help keep the format interesting. Following the crash in the internet boom, only one segment of the program could possibly be viewed free of charge and eventually by 2004 the entire program was changed into a members only one with no segments available 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 many newspapers and magazines.