Editing Naked News (section)

=== 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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Naked News makes debut in Japan|url=https://www.today.com/today/wbna10797426|date=11 January 2006|website=Hollywood Reporter|first=Julian|last=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=https://www.foxnews.com/story/canadas-naked-news-to-broadcast-in-spanish-italian-korean/|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>
* 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.<ref name=SMH/>
* 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 company's two heads, an Israeli entrepreneur, Yoav Sinai and a New Zealander investor of Chinese descent, CEO John Chau (Chow) left the country without paying deferred salaries.<ref>{{cite magazine
|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter
|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/koreas-naked-news-shuts-87173/
|title=Korea's "Naked News" shuts down
|publisher=Hollywood Reporter Incorporated
|year=2009}}</ref> 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>