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 introduced more attractive, intelligent and witty news presenters in order to get more viewership and garner more revenues. The traditional weather girl of the news channels has always conjured up the picture of a very beautiful, attractive and sensual woman delivering the weather report. Naked News has taken this element of sensuality one step further and it has naked women doling out the weather report!
Naked News calls itself a program that has “nothing to hide”. This web subscription program features a complete and full television newscast. The program is arranged in Toronto and it is aired daily each episode being of twenty five minutes. The highlight of this show is the fact that 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’s 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, at that time was the only anchor for the show and presented all the segments including weather, sports, entertainment etc. As the show became popular, the numbers of anchors increased and presently consists of eight female presenters and also have guest anchors featuring at the same time. Devoid of marketing gimmick or strategy, this website shot to popularity only through word of mouth, soon transforming into a frequented web destination.
This site received almost six million hits within 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, just one of the news segments could be seen for free and after 2004, the website became a paid one. Again in 2008 two segments on the show could be viewed for free.
Naked News launched Naked New Japan in 2006, in colaboration 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 do not strip completely, owing to the stringent broadcasting norms of the country. However, the producers hope that they’ll have the ability to show more down the road. The Naked News expansion mode continued with the launch of Naked News Italia in 2008.
Naked news presenters have been extremely popular and have been featured in a number of television shows including the Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, as well as 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 such as Playboy and TV Guide.
To turn into a member of Naked News you have to be above eighteen years old and gain access to a daily feed of features, news and reports which are gathered all across the world.