Naked News

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Naked News
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GenreNews
Entertainment
Adult website
Created byFernando Pereira
Kirby Stasyna
Presented by
  • Eila Adams
  • Madison Banes
  • Alana Blaire
  • Laura Desiree
  • Tia Larose
  • Marina Valmont
  • Frankie Kennedy
  • Isabella Rossini
[1]
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerLucas Tyler
Production location Toronto
Running time20 minutes
Original release
ReleaseDecember 1999 (1999-12) –
present

Naked News is a Canadian news and entertainment program owned by Naked Broadcasting Network. It features nude female news presenters reading news bulletins derived from news wires. [2] The show's production studio is located in Toronto. There are six daily news programs a week and they are approximately 20 minutes long. [3] The female cast members either read the news fully nude, or disrobe as they present their various segments, [4] including entertainment, sports, movies, food, sex and relationships. Naked News TV! is an offshoot of the web program and is broadcast on pay TV in various countries around the world. [5] [6] The show recruits women from around the world to appear on a regular basis or as guest reporters, and their auditions are included in the program.[ citation needed ] Another segment of the show is Naked in the Streets in which a reporter appears topless in the street and asks the public about various topics. [7]

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History

Then-Naked News anchor Christine Kerr, in Toronto (Canada), 2008 Former Naked News anchor Christine Kerr, in Toronto (Canada), 2008.jpg
Then-Naked News anchor Christine Kerr, in Toronto (Canada), 2008

Naked News was conceived by Fernando Pereira and Kirby Stasyna and debuted in December 1999 [5] as a web-based news service featuring an all-female cast. [8]

It began with only one anchor, Victoria Sinclair, who worked for the program until 2015. [9] [10] As the show grew, the number of female anchors increased. Roxanne West joined Sinclair as a lead anchor, and other cast members included Holly Weston, April Torres, Lily Kwan, Sandrine Renard, Erin Sherwood, Athena King, Brooke Roberts, Michelle Pantoliano, Erica Stevens, [5] Samantha Page, Christine Kerr and Valentina Taylor, plus guest anchors.

The website was popularized entirely by word of mouth, [3] and quickly became a popular web destination. During the height of its popularity, the website was receiving over 6 million unique visitors per month. [5] [2] In the site's early days, the entire newscast could be viewed for free online. [3] The site was initially supported by advertising, but this changed after the collapse of Internet advertising that occurred with the dot-com crash. By 2002, only one news segment could be viewed for free, [5] and by 2004, no free content remained on the website. [3] 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 for free. However, this ended in December 2009.[ citation needed ]

In 2001, following the success of The Naked Truth , a similar show on Russian television, the Naked News website launched Naked News TV!, a 45-minute [11] show initially broadcast on the pay-per-view cable television channel Viewers Choice in Canada. [2] It was broadcast in the United States a few months later by the iN DEMAND [12] cable TV service on its Too Much for TV pay-per-view network that also included Girls Gone Wild . In 2002, it was broadcast in Australia on The Comedy Channel via cable and satellite television platforms Foxtel and Austar. [5] 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.[ citation needed ]

A male version of the show ran from 2001 until 2007. It was created to parallel the female version, but 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. [13]

By 2008, Naked News TV! was available on pay-per-view in the US, Europe, Australia, Asia and Canada, while the Naked News website had viewers in more than 172 nations [11]

In the media

In the 2000s, Naked News was the subject of a UK-funded documentary called Naked News - Backstage. [11]

In 2013, Naked News was the subject of an eight-part documentary series called Naked News Uncovered, which was broadcast on Super Channel in Canada. [14]

The female announcers have been featured on ( 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 several radio shows, including Howard Stern. [15]

Similar shows

Naked News presenter Lily Kwan (right) Lily Kwan.jpg
Naked News presenter Lily Kwan (right)

In the late 1990s, British cable television channel L!VE TV broadcast Tiffani's Big City Tips, in which model Tiffani Banister gave the financial news while stripping to her underwear. [16]

International licensing

Imitators

Parodies

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