Naked News
| Naked News | |
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| 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 |
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| 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
Current anchors
- Katherine Curtis (2008–present)
- Eila Adams (2009–present)
- Natasha Olenski (2010–present)
- Carli Bei (2014–present)
- Isabella Rossini (2014–present)
- Angie Heyward (2014–present)
- Madison Banes (2015–present)
- Elise Laurenne (2016-present)
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
- 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 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.[6][7][8]
- cs:Počasíčko[9] (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.[10] 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"[11] 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.
- In March 2010, students at the University of Cambridge presented a news segment on Cambridge University Television in the nude.[12]
- French spoof news site Les graves infos (Serious News) was launched in mid-2009 with a stripping weather girl.[13] The site closed in February 2010.[14]
- 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.[15]
- In Portugal, a five-minute news bulletin fronted by a naked woman, titled Nutícias, premiered on April 22, 2002 on cable station SIC Radical. The show got canceled in 2003.
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".[16]
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100301150717/http://www.nakednews.it/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081216235741/http://www.nakednewsenespanol.com/
- ↑ "whois lookup". oxodomain.com. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
- ↑ "wayback machine". web.archive.org.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Počasíčko Archived 10 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Jan Čulík: 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 2 May 2014. 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.
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