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Naked News, billing itself as "the program with nothing to hide", is a Subscription Website featuring a real Television Newscast prepared in Toronto . The male and 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. Regardless of the gender of the anchor, most viewers are men. Naked News also aired briefly as a late night television series on Citytv Toronto . HISTORY Naked News was conceived by Fernando Pereira and Kirby Stasyna and debuted in 2000 as a web-based news service featuring an all-female cast. It began with only one anchor, Victoria Sinclair , who is still with the program which has currently grown to 10 female anchors, plus guest anchors. The website was popularized entirely by word of mouth, and quickly became an Internet Meme . 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. Currently a nudity-free version of Naked News is available to non-subscribers. The UK channel Sumo TV briefly showed episodes of naked news before presumably being made to stop. A male version of the show was created in 2001 to parallel the female version. It does not however enjoy the same popularity and fame, and there are currently more female than male anchors. Although it was originally targeted towards female viewers (at one point said to be 30% of the website's audience), the male show now openly promotes itself as news from a gay perspective. CAST 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 2000, 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 . presenting the entertainment segment on Naked News]] The current female anchors are:
Past female anchors are:
The current male anchors are:
Past male anchors are:
Current writers are:
IMITATORS The initial success of the show's concept spawned several imitators, mostly on the websites, but also including '' The Daily Flash '', a news program on Playboy TV . Among the imitators on the internet:
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. A very similar phenomenon (going by the name "Noodie News") appears in Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood 's novel '' Oryx And Crake ''. Russian program 600 Seconds preceded Naked News by a few years. EXTERNAL LINKS
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