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.
International licensing •
Naked News launched a Japanese version of the show in 2006. Sunrise Corp. CEO Takuya Uchikawa and Naked News owner eGalaxy Multimedia CEO David Warga partnered the venture, starting with Naked News content using Japanese subtitles. Japanese broadcasting regulations prohibited the presenters from being fully naked, allowing them only to strip to their underwear. In 2007, the Japanese government changed broadcasting guidelines to prevent the show receiving a subsidy for the section delivered in sign language. • In 2008, licensing negotiations were underway to produce an Italian-language version of the show in Milan, a Spanish-language version in Mexico and Korean-language version in South Korea. • In 2001–2002, Bulgarian cable network
M-SAT had its own equivalent, based on the Russian show
The Naked Truth. In its first week, its ratings surpassed the late edition of state television's
Po sveta i u nas. It was the first time a cable television program surpassed
Bulgarian National Television in ratings, which led to M-SAT gaining more subscribers. The
Bulgarian Orthodox Church raised concerns over the program. On 1 January 2002, its length increased from ten minutes to fifteen. On 11 January 2002, M-SAT stopped airing the program for unknown reasons, but the Council for Electronic Media thought it was due to accusations of plagiarism from the Russian version. • A very similar phenomenon by the name "Noodie News" appears in Canadian
Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel
Oryx and Crake. •
Počasíčko (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. 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" section causing controversy; asked about the
Naked News, they denied securing license and stressed Počasíčko's primacy. • In March 2010, students at the
University of Cambridge presented a news segment on
Cambridge University Television in the nude. • French spoof news site
Les Graves Infos (
Serious News) was launched in mid-2009 with a stripping weather girl. The site closed in February 2010. • 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. •
Playboy TV imitated the format with its news program
The Weekend Flash. == References ==