News channels have undergone a huge amount of change over the past few years. Some news programs have gone onto changing their formats, look and have brought in more appealing, intelligent and witty news presenters in order to get more viewership and garner more revenues. The conventional weather girl from the news channels has always created the image of a very beautiful, attractive and sensual woman delivering the weather report. Naked News has taken this element of sensuality a step further and it has naked women dishing out the weather report!
Naked News calls itself a program which has “nothing to hide”. This web subscription program carries a complete and full television newscast. The program is arranged in Toronto and is aired daily each episode being of twenty five minutes. The highlight in this show is that the male or female anchors either read the news completely naked or they strip while they read their specified segments, including weather, sports, entertainment, current affairs etc. It has been noted that irrespective of this news presenters gender, the viewership of Naked News remains predominantly male.
Naked News made its debut in 2000 as being a subscription based web news service that boasted of an all female cast. The first anchor of Naked News was Victoria Sinclair who, during those times was the only anchor for that show and presented every one of the segments including weather, sports, entertainment etc. Since the show gained popularity, the numbers of anchors increased and presently consists of eight female presenters and additionally have guest anchors featuring at the same time. With no marketing gimmick or strategy, this website shot to popularity only through word of mouth marketing, soon transforming into a frequented web destination.
This site received almost six million hits in a month during its initial days. An enormous cause of its popularity was its free viewership as the site was supported entirely by advertising. Post 2002, only one of the news segments could be seen for free and after 2004, the site became a paid one. Again in 2008 two segments of the show could be viewed for free.
Naked News launched Naked New Japan in 2006, in association with eGalaxy and Sunrise Corp. eGalaxy was the owner of Naked News and Sunrise Corp was a seller of services and goods over the internet. Naked News Japans presenters don’t strip completely, owing to the stringent broadcasting norms of the nation. However, the producers hope that they will be able to show more down the road. The Naked News expansion mode continued together with the launch of Naked News Italia in 2008.
Naked news presenters happen to be extremely popular and also have been featured in a number of tv shows such as The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and The View etc. They’ve also made several appearances on Entertainment Tonight and ET Insider. These presenters have been featured in numerous newspapers and magazines including Playboy and TV Guide.
To turn into a member of Naked News you have to be above eighteen years of age and gain access to a daily feed of features, news and reports which are gathered all around the globe.