Editing Naked News (section)

===Imitators===
* ''[[Comédie+]]'' – In 2001, this French cable TV network ran a series promos featuring males and females casually undressing as they read jokes.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} In 2006 they copied the ''Naked News'' format more closely in a striptease newscast called ''Les Nuz'', in which the anchors read the news wearing only their bottom underwear.<ref name=SMH/>
* Radio Tango – In 2001 this radio station based in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]] began featuring stripping female weather readers in their broadcasts and on their website.<ref>{{cite news|title=Radio Tango calls the tune in the nude|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/eish/radio-tango-calls-the-tune-in-the-nude-65730|date=4 May 2001|access-date=4 December 2017|work=IOL News|agency=Reuters}}</ref>
* In 2001–2002, Bulgarian cable network [[Bulgaria ON AIR|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.novinite.com/articles/5036/NAKED+NEWSCASTERS+ON+BULGARIAN+TV|title=Naked Newscasters on Bulgarian TV|date=18 December 2001|website=Novinite (Sofia News Agency)|agency=The Associated Press}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chron.com/news/strange-weird/article/bulgarian-tv-station-halts-news-strippers-2069832.php|title=Bulgarian TV station halts news strippers|date=12 January 2002|website=Chron (Hearst Newspapers)|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
* A very similar phenomenon by the name "Noodie News" appears in Canadian [[Margaret Atwood]]'s 2003 novel ''[[Oryx and Crake]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Howells |first=Coral Ann |editor-first1=Coral Ann |editor-last1=Howells |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781139000956/type/book |title=The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood |date=2006-03-30 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-83966-2 |editor-first= |edition=1 |doi=10.1017/ccol0521839661 |s2cid=160396201 |oclc=61362106}}</ref><ref>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</ref><ref>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</ref>
* [[:cs:Počasíčko|Počasíčko]]<ref>[http://www.nova.cz/tvarchiv/?prog=POCASICKO ''Počasíčko''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020624051344/http://www.nova.cz/tvarchiv/?prog=POCASICKO |date=24 June 2002 }}</ref> (diminutive of "weather") was [[Czech Republic|Czech]] [[Nova (Czech TV)|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.<ref>{{cite web|first=Jan|last=Čulík|author-link=Jan Čulík|url=http://www.ce-review.org/99/14/culik14.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000116013518/http://www.ce-review.org/99/14/culik14.html|archive-date=16 January 2000|title=More Moribund Manoeuvering|website=Central Europe Review|volume=1|issue=14|date=27 September 1999}}</ref> 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"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tn.nova.cz/red/ |title=Red News |date=2008-05-08 |work=tn.nova.cz/red |publisher=nova.cz |language=cs|access-date=9 June 2015 |location=cz |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007040933/http://tn.nova.cz/red/ |archive-date=7 October 2011 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7375677/The-Naked-News-presented-by-Cambridge-University-students.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308100743/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7375677/The-Naked-News-presented-by-Cambridge-University-students.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 8, 2010 |title=The Naked News Presented by Cambridge University Students |date=March 5, 2010 |access-date=May 20, 2020 |work=Telegraph}}</ref>
* French spoof news site ''Les Graves Infos'' (''Serious News'') was launched in mid-2009 with a stripping weather girl.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://korben.info/les-graves-infos-site-humour-farrugia.html |title=Les Graves Infos – Le site d'humour sans humour de Dominique Farrugia |language=fr |trans-title=Les Graves Infos – Dominique Farrugia's Unfunny Comedy Site |date=2 May 2009 |author=Korben }}</ref> The site closed in February 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lesgravesinfos.fr/ |title=Les graves infos |date=2010-02-12 |publisher=lesgravesinfos.fr |access-date=9 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217122637/http://lesgravesinfos.fr/ |archive-date=17 December 2014 }}</ref>
* In June 2014, a very similar show was released [[Media of Venezuela|in Venezuela]] called ''Desnudando la Noticia'' (''Stripping the News'') which is a variant of ''Naked News''.<ref name=independent-20150617>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/venezuelan-tv-host-gets-completely-naked-while-reporting-on-copa-america-win-over-colombia-10325683.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/venezuelan-tv-host-gets-completely-naked-while-reporting-on-copa-america-win-over-colombia-10325683.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Venezuelan TV host gets completely naked while reporting on Copa America win over Colombia |author=Tom Sheen |newspaper=The Independent |date=17 June 2015 |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref>
* [[Playboy TV]] imitated the format with its news program ''The Daily Flash''.<ref name=SMH/>
* In [[Portugal]], a five-minute news bulletin fronted by a naked woman, titled ''Nutícias'', premiered on 22 April 2002 on cable station [[SIC Radical]]. The show was canceled in 2003.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
* A Finnish copy of the ''Naked News'' concept was broadcast on the country's [[Aluetelevisio]] cable television channel. The show employed erotic actress [[Maria Kekkonen]] as a reporter. A former porn actress, [[Rakel Liekki]], also worked for the show.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}