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 espa ol 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 rapha l 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 . contents 1 history 2 similar shows 2.1 naked news imitators 2.2 parodies 3 references 4 external links history edit naked news was conceived by fernando pereira and kirby stasyna and debuted in december 1999 3 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 citation needed 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 queer perspective . similar shows edit 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 tiffani s big city tips in which model tiffani banister gave the financial news while stripping to her underwear . 4 naked news imitators edit com die in 2001 this french cable tv network ran a series promos featuring males and females casually undressing as they read jokes . in 2006 they copied the nn format in its entirety in a striptease newscast called les nuz except the anchors keep their bottom underwear on . radio tango oslo norway radio station once featured stripping female weather readers on their website . a very similar phenomenon by the name noodie news appears in canadian margaret atwood s 2003 novel oryx and crake . 5 6 7 cs po as ko 8 diminutive of weather was czech tv nova s past 10pm featurette launched in january 1998 where a nude woman or occasionally a man got dressed in clothing appropriate for the next day s weather forecast . 9 this was discontinued after several years and returned as web only in february 2007 . when nova launched a new online portal in may 2008 it included a red news 10 section causing controversy ; asked about the naked news they denied securing license and stressed po as ko s primacy . in june 2009 plans for naked news korea were announced . it featured a similar format to the canadian version but with less nudity . this was later revealed to be a scam . after barely a month of operations naked news korea which featured topless news anchors abruptly closed down amid allegations that the ceo john chau disappeared with all of the company s money . although chau bought the naming rights from the naked news it was never an official subsidiary of the toronto based canadian company . 1 in march 2010 students at the university of cambridge presented a news segment on cambridge university television in the nude . 11 french spoof news site les graves infos serious news was launched in mid 2009 with a stripping weather girl . 12 the site closed in february 2010 . 13 in june 2014 a very similar show was released in venezuela called desnudando la noticia stripping the news which is a hispanic variant of naked news . 14 in portugal a five minute news bulletin fronted by a naked woman titled nut cias premiered on april 22 2002 on cable station sic radical . the show got canceled in 2003 . parodies edit a 2005 episode of the satirical new zealand news show eating media lunch depicted newsreaders fornicating in a parody of naked news called fuck news . 15 references edit https web.archive.org web 20100301150717 http www.nakednews.it https web.archive.org web 20081216235741 http www.nakednewsenespanol.com wayback machine . web.archive.org . archive url is malformed timestamp help ashley hames sin cities tonto books 2008 isbn 0 9556326 0 9 p. 33 coral ann howells the cambridge companion to margaret atwood cambridge university press 2006 isbn 0 521 83966 1 p. 186 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 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 po as ko archived 24 june 2002 at the wayback machine . jan ul k more moribund manoeuvering central europe review 1999 red news . tn.nova.cz red in czech . cz nova.cz . 2008 05 08 . archived from the original on 7 october 2011 . retrieved 9 june 2015 . sarah harris nudes at 10 daily mail 6 march 2010 les graves infos . lesgravesinfos.fr . 2009 04 27 . archived from the original on 17 december 2014 . retrieved 9 june 2015 . les graves infos . lesgravesinfos.fr . 2010 02 12 . archived from the original on 17 december 2014 . retrieved 9 june 2015 . 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 . tvnz and morrish and valenta 2005 137 . archived from the original on 7 june 2008 . retrieved 2008 07 15 . external links edit nudity portal wikimedia commons has media related to naked news . naked news facebook twitter v t e nudity modesty and related topics naturism international naturist federation public nudity christian naturism gay naturism naturist magazines naturist resorts anarchist naturism nude recreation nude beach naked restaurant nudity in sport clothing optional 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