Naked News

Naked News
Genre News, erotica
Created by Fernando Pereira, Kirby Stasyna
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
Production
Location(s) Toronto, Ontario
Running time 25 minutes
Release
Picture format mp4
Original release December 1999 – present
External links
Official web site

Naked News, billing itself as "the program with nothing to hide", is a subscription website featuring a real television newscast. The show is prepared in Toronto and runs daily, with 25-minute episodes 6 days per week. The female anchors read the news fully nude or strip as they present their news segments. Naked News TV is its offshoot pay-per-view or subscription service. Naked News also aired briefly as a late night television series on Citytv Toronto.

Alongside the English language version, there is also Naked News Japan. An Italian version existed but closed after a few years.[1] Naked News en Español[2] was briefly trialled. A male version in English was also launched but ceased production on 31 October 2007.

Most of the show's announcers have been recruited through classified ads in alternative newspapers in Toronto. As such, most of the show's crew comes from the Toronto area. The show features occasional on-the-street interviews by topless newscasters, which are made possible by Ontario's Topfree equality laws. Since the show's inception in 1999, there has been much turnover among the newscasters, and many guest anchors. The female announcers have been featured in almost every medium including television (CBS Sunday Morning, The Today Show, The View, Sally Jessy Raphaël, and numerous appearances on Entertainment Tonight and ET Insider) newspapers and magazines, (TV Guide, Playboy) and as guests on multiple radio shows including Howard Stern.

History

Naked News was conceived by Fernando Pereira and Kirby Stasyna and debuted in December 1999[3][4] as a web-based news service featuring an all-female cast. It began with only one anchor, Victoria Sinclair (who left the program in 2014), and has currently grown to eight female anchors, plus guest anchors. The website was popularized entirely by word of mouth, and quickly became a popular web destination. During the height of its popularity, the website was receiving over 6 million hits per month. Part of the large amounts of web traffic in the site's early days was because the entire newscast could be viewed for free and supported by advertising. By 2002, after the crash of Internet advertising, only one news segment could be viewed freely, and by 2004, no free content remained on the website. Beginning in 2005, a nudity-free version of Naked News was available to non-subscribers. Beginning in June 2008, two news segments could be viewed freely. However, this ended in December 2009. The British channel Sumo TV briefly showed episodes of Naked News, while the free-to-view Playboy One broadcast the show at 9:30pm Mondays-Fridays until its closure in 2008.

A male version of the show was created in 2001 to parallel the female version, but has ceased production as it did not enjoy the female version's popularity and fame. Although it was originally targeted towards female viewers (at one point said to be 30% of the website's audience), the male show later promoted itself as news from a gay perspective.

Cast

Naked News presenter Lily Kwan

Current anchors

Similar shows

A comedic "precursor" to this concept occurred in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which Terry Jones began performing a striptease while giving a fast-paced rundown of economic news.

In the late 1990s, British cable television channel L!VE TV broadcast Tiffany's Big City Tips, in which model Tiffany Banister gave the financial news while stripping to her underwear.[5]

Naked News imitators

Parodies

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100301150717/http://www.nakednews.it/
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081216235741/http://www.nakednewsenespanol.com/
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  5. ↑ Ashley Hames, "Sin Cities", Tonto Books, 2008, ISBN 0-9556326-0-9, p.33
  6. ↑ Coral Ann Howells, "The Cambridge companion to Margaret Atwood", Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-521-83966-1, p.186
  7. ↑ John Moss, Tobi Kozakewich, "Margaret Atwood: The Open Eye", Re-appraisals, Canadian writers, volume 30, University of Ottawa Press, 2006, ISBN 0-7766-0613-1, p.398
  8. ↑ Sharon Rose Wilson, "Myths and fairy tales in contemporary women's fiction: from Atwood to Morrison", Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 0-230-60554-0, pp.43,49
  9. ↑ Počasíčko Archived 10 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Jan Čulík: More Moribund Manoeuvering, Central Europe Review 1999
  11. ↑ "Red News". tn.nova.cz/red (in Czech). cz: nova.cz. 2008-05-08. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  12. ↑ Sarah Harris, "Nudes at 10", Daily Mail, 6 March 2010
  13. ↑ "Les graves infos". lesgravesinfos.fr. 2009-04-27. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  14. ↑ "Les graves infos". lesgravesinfos.fr. 2010-02-12. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  15. ↑ Tom Sheen (17 June 2015). "Venezuelan TV host gets completely naked while reporting on Copa America win over Colombia". The Independent. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  16. ↑ "TVNZ and Morrish and Valenta - 2005-137". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-15.

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