Friday,
January 11, 2008
NAKED Italian News?
The Program with Nothing to Hide!
The
ANNOTICO Report
Naked News, which
features female anchors reading the news in the nude or stripping as they
present their news segments, in Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese.
The Italian shows
will be produced in
Created by
Fernando Pereira and Kirby Stasyna, Naked News first
aired online in 1999. "The original Naked News English version has always
focused and presented an international broadcast. Now with the addition of the
foreign-language licensees, our intention at Naked News is to be a global media
source, much like CNN or BBC World," Warga said.
"We have a worldwide audience, but we haven't been able to give them localised news until now."
The channel gets
its information from regular news services and uses professionally trained
writers and directors to produce the bulletins of political, business, sport
and entertainment news.
The website was popularised mainly by word of mouth and during its height
in 2001 was registering 6 million "unique visitors" a month, which
was almost two-thirds of the 9 million monthly viewers registered by CNN at the
time.
Time magazine
proclaimed the online news broadcast "offers the best international
coverage this side of the BBC.".
Interestingly,
a male version of the show was created but was abandoned for lack of
subscriber interest.
Naked News in Bid to Flesh out World
Coverage
The
Sydney Morning Herald
From
Associated Press
January
11, 2008
If you speak
Spanish, Italian or Korean and long to watch your daily dish of news from a
disrobed announcer, you're in luck.
Toronto-based
Naked News, "the program with nothing to hide," is expanding its
foreign-language coverage in an attempt to gain a worldwide audience.
The program,
which features nine female anchors reading the news in the nude or stripping as
they present their news segments, will now be broadcast in Spanish, Italian and
Korean, along with its already available Japanese broadcasts.
Naked News
President David Warga said the licensing agreements
are confidential and could not divulge the names of the local affiliates that
will be producing the shows in
The multilingual
broadcasts will be available online and through mobile providers, as well as on
traditional pay-per-view television stations. Naked News TV is currently
available on pay-per-view in the
The channel gets
its information from regular news services and uses professionally trained
writers and directors to produce the bulletins of political, business, sport
and entertainment news.
Warga said the company aspires
to be an international news organisation and that
further expansion is planned.
"The
original Naked News English version has always focused and presented an
international broadcast. Now with the addition of the foreign-language
licensees, our intention at Naked News is to be a global media source, much
like CNN or BBC World," Warga said. "We
have a worldwide audience, but we haven't been able to give them localised news until now."
Created by
Fernando Pereira and Kirby Stasyna, Naked News first
aired online in 1999 and created quite a lot of attention as anchors aired
themselves and the news. The website was popularised
mainly by word of mouth and during its height in 2001 was registering 6 million
"unique visitors" a month, which was almost two-thirds of the 9
million monthly viewers registered by CNN at the time.
Time magazine
proclaimed the online news broadcast "offers the best international
coverage this side of the BBC.".
"What Time
said is true. A lot of people write in and tell us, we came for the nudity, but
stayed for the content. And that was always our intention, to grab you with the
nudity and then hook you with the content," Warga
said.
Two years after
NakedNews.com launched, it hopped over to TV with a 45-minute cable television
news show on a pay-per-view station. A male version of the show was created
during this time but ceased in October 2007 due to a dwindling subscriber base.
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