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	* 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".<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/2005/2005-137.htm \|title=TVNZ and Morrish and Valenta - 2005-137 \|access-date=2008-07-15 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607104359/http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/2005/2005-137.htm \|archive-date=7 June 2008 }}</ref>		* 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".<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/2005/2005-137.htm \|title=TVNZ and Morrish and Valenta - 2005-137 \|access-date=2008-07-15 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607104359/http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/2005/2005-137.htm \|archive-date=7 June 2008 }}</ref>

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'''''Naked News''''' is a Canadian news and entertainment program owned by Naked Broadcasting Network. It features [[:Category:Naked News presenters|nude female news presenters]] reading news bulletins derived from news wires.<ref name=Beeb>{{cite news|title=Net news to bare all on TV|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1530995.stm|work=BBC News|date=7 September 2001}}</ref> The show's production studio is located in Toronto. There are six daily news programs a week and they are approximately 22 minutes long.<ref name=Mutz>{{cite book|title=In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4CSBQAAQBAJ|first=Diana C.|last=Mutz|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2015|isbn=9781400865871|page=215}}</ref> The female cast members either read the news fully nude, or disrobe as they present their various segments,<ref>{{cite book|title=Interpreting News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axwdBQAAQBAJ|first=Graham|last=Meikle|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2008|isbn=9781137105677|page=119}}</ref> 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.<ref name=BW>{{cite web|title=Naked News TV! to Air New Episodes on Australian T.V.|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Naked+News+TV!+to+Air+New+Episodes+On+Australian+T.V.-a092809680|website=Free Online Library|agency=Business Wire|date=2 October 2002|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802083943/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Naked+News+TV!+to+Air+New+Episodes+On+Australian+T.V.-a092809680|archive-date=2 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Outsmart the MBA Clones: The Alternative Guide to Competitive Strategy, Marketing, and Branding|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bBJ5u3grR4QC|first=Dan|last=Herman|publisher=Paramount Market Publishing|year=2008|isbn=9780978660284|page=25}}</ref>

The show recruits women from around the world to appear on a regular basis or as guest reporters. Their auditions, where women try out for the program, is one of the most popular segments and generates the most viewer feedback. Another popular segment is ''Naked in the Streets'', where a reporter will go topless in the street and ask the public about topics.<ref>{{cite news|last=Neal|first=Rome|title=Turning Heads At Naked News|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turning-heads-at-naked-news/|publisher=[[CBS News]]|date=October 24, 2003 |access-date=May 20, 2020}}</ref>

== History ==
''Naked News'' was conceived by Fernando Pereira and Kirby Stasyna and debuted in December [[1999]]<ref name=BW/> as a web-based news service featuring an all-female cast.<ref>{{cite news|last=Elder|first=Robert K.|title=Just the Bare Facts About the Naked News|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2002-01-13-0201160281-story.html|newspaper=[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]|date=January 13, 2002|access-date=March 18, 2020}}</ref> It began with only one anchor, [[Victoria Sinclair]], who worked for the program until [[2015]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PXtnj5fs9tgC|first=David T. Z.|last=Mindich|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|year=2005|isbn=9780195161403|pages=55–56}}</ref> 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]], [[Lily Kwan]], [[Sandrine Renard]], [[Erin Sherwood]], [[Athena King]], [[Brooke Roberts]], [[Michelle Pantoliano]], [[Erica Stevens]],<ref name=BW/> [[Samantha Page]], [[Christine Kerr]] and [[Valentina Taylor]], plus guest anchors. The website was popularized entirely by word of mouth,<ref name=Mutz/> and quickly became a popular web destination. During the height of its popularity, the website was receiving over 6 million unique visitors per month.<ref name=BW/><ref name=Beeb/> In the site's early days, the entire newscast could be viewed for free online.<ref name=Mutz/> 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 freely,<ref name=BW/> and by 2004, no free content remained on the website.<ref name=Mutz/> 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.

Following the success of ''The Naked Truth'', a similar show on Russian television, ''Naked News'' launched ''Naked News TV!'', the first Internet news program to successfully transfer from website to cable television. It was initially broadcast on Viewers Choice in Canada in 2001,<ref name=Beeb/> and was first broadcast in the United States a few months later by the iN DEMAND 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.<ref name=BW/> 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.

''Naked News'' launched a Japanese version of the show in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|website=Today|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/naked-news-makes-debut-japan-wbna10797426|title=Naked News makes debut in Japan|date=11 January 2006|author=Julian Ryall}}</ref> Japanese broadcasting regulations prohibited the presenters from being fully naked, allowing them only to strip to their underwear.<ref>{{cite news|title=Canada's 'Naked News' to Broadcast in Spanish, Italian, Korean|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/01/10/canada-naked-news-to-broadcast-in-spanish-italian-korean.html|publisher=Fox News|date=10 January 2008}}</ref> In 2007, the Japanese government changed broadcasting guidelines to prevent the show receiving a subsidy for the section delivered in sign language.<ref>{{cite news|title=Naked news defies subsidy strip|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/japan/naked-news-defies-subsidy-strip-1.195886|date=18 August 2007|work=Gulf News}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/naked-men-give-it-to-you-straight/article18263700/ |title=Naked men give it to you straight |date=April 14, 2004 |author=Gayle McDonald |access-date=May 20, 2020 |work=[[Globe & Mail]]}}</ref>

==In the media==
In 2013, the ''Naked News'' show was the subject of an eight-part documentary series called ''Naked News Uncovered'' which was broadcast on Super Channel in Canada.<ref>{{cite news|title=Naked News Uncovered? New, nutty but not so naughty|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/naked-news-uncovered-new-nutty-but-not-so-naughty/article14436518/|author=John Doyle|date=23 September 2013|newspaper=The Globe and Mail}}</ref>

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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acidlogic.com/nakednews_interview.htm |title=It's the News, Naked... |author=Wil Forbis |date=May 1, 2001 |work=Acid Logic |access-date=May 20, 2020}}</ref>

== Similar shows ==
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.<ref>Ashley Hames, "Sin Cities", Tonto Books, 2008, ISBN 0-9556326-0-9, p.33</ref>

===Imitators===
* ''[[Comédie+]]'' – 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 ''Naked News'' format in its entirety in a striptease newscast called ''Les Nuz'', except the anchors keep their bottom underwear on.
* Radio Tango – In 2001 this radio station based in Oslo, [[Norway]] began featuring stripping female weather readers in their broadcasts and on their website.<ref>{{cite news|title=Radio Tango calls the tune in the nude|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/eish/radio-tango-calls-the-tune-in-the-nude-65730|date=4 May 2001|access-date=4 December 2017|work=IOL News|agency=Reuters}}</ref>
* A very similar phenomenon by the name "Noodie News" appears in Canadian Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel ''Oryx and Crake''.<ref>Coral Ann Howells, "The Cambridge companion to Margaret Atwood", Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-521-83966-1, p.186</ref><ref>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</ref><ref>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</ref>
* Počasíčko<ref>[http://www.nova.cz/tvarchiv/?prog=POCASICKO ''Počasíčko''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020624051344/http://www.nova.cz/tvarchiv/?prog=POCASICKO |date=24 June 2002 }}</ref> (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.<ref>Jan Čulík: [http://www.ce-review.org/99/14/culik14.html More Moribund Manoeuvering], ''Central Europe Review'' 1999</ref> 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"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tn.nova.cz/red/ |title=Red News |date=2008-05-08 |work=tn.nova.cz/red |publisher=nova.cz |language=cs|access-date=9 June 2015 |location=cz |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007040933/http://tn.nova.cz/red/ |archive-date=7 October 2011 }}</ref> section causing controversy; asked about the ''Naked News'', they denied securing license and stressed Počasíčko'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.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrsqAQAAIAAJ|volume=410–411|page=40|title=Korean Cover-Up|publisher=Hollywood Reporter Incorporated|year=2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?34788-Naked-News-%28Korea-version%29|title=Naked News (Korea version)|website=sammyboy.com|date=10 August 2009|author=cooleo|access-date=15 September 2017}}</ref>
* In March 2010, students at the University of Cambridge presented a news segment on ''Cambridge University Television'' in the nude.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7375677/The-Naked-News-presented-by-Cambridge-University-students.html |title=The Naked News Presented by Cambridge University Students |date=March 5, 2010 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |work=Telegraph}}</ref>
* French spoof news site ''Les Graves Infos'' (''Serious News'') was launched in mid-2009 with a stripping weather girl.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://korben.info/les-graves-infos-site-humour-farrugia.html |title=Les Graves Infos – Le site d'humour sans humour de Dominique Farrugia |language=fr |trans-title=Les Graves Infos – Dominique Farrugia's Unfunny Comedy Site |date=2 May 2009 |author=Korben }}</ref> The site closed in February 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lesgravesinfos.fr/ |title=Les graves infos |date=2010-02-12 |publisher=lesgravesinfos.fr |access-date=9 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217122637/http://lesgravesinfos.fr/ |archive-date=17 December 2014 }}</ref>
* In June 2014, a very similar show was released in Venezuela called ''Desnudando la Noticia'' (''Stripping the News'') which is a variant of ''Naked News''.<ref name=independent-20150617>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/venezuelan-tv-host-gets-completely-naked-while-reporting-on-copa-america-win-over-colombia-10325683.html |title=Venezuelan TV host gets completely naked while reporting on Copa America win over Colombia |author=Tom Sheen |newspaper=The Independent |date=17 June 2015 |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref>
* In Portugal, a five-minute news bulletin fronted by a naked woman, titled ''Nutícias'', premiered on 22 April 2002 on cable station SIC Radical]. The show got canceled in 2003.
* A Finnish copy of the ''Naked News'' concept was broadcast on the country's Aluetelevisio cable television channel. The show employed the erotic actress [[Maria Kekkonen]] as a reporter and the former pornographic actress [[Rakel Liekki]] also worked for the show.

===Parodies===
* 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/2005/2005-137.htm |title=TVNZ and Morrish and Valenta - 2005-137 |access-date=2008-07-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607104359/http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/2005/2005-137.htm |archive-date=7 June 2008 }}</ref>

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== External links ==
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