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. Buildings:. Among the imitators on the internet:. The Twin Towers can refer to:. 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. It consisted of the wrestlers Ray Traylor and George Gray. Past male anchors are:.

A wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation in the late 1980s. The current male anchors are:. A nickname that was given to the basketball players Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson, who played together for the Houston Rockets in the 1980s. Past female anchors are:. A nickname that was given to the basketball players Tim Duncan and David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs, due to their great height. The current female anchors are:. Fox-TV Tower and KTRK-TV Tower, two 600 metre tall guyed radio masts approximately 30 metres apart in Missouri City, Texas. The female announcers have been featured in almost every media including television (CBS Sunday Morning, The Today Show, The View, Sally Jesse 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.

Soelvesborg Twin Towers, radio towers of the mediumwave transmitter of the foreign service of Radio Sweden. Since the show's inception in 1999, there has been much turnover among the newscasters, and many guest anchors. Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, California. The show features occasional on-the-street interviews by topless newscasters, which are made possible by Ontario's Topfree equality laws. Wembley Stadium in London, England, which had Twin Towers before being demolished in 2003. As such, most of the show's crew comes from the Toronto area. Time Warner Center in New York. Most of the show's announcers have been recruited through classified ads in alternative newspapers in Toronto.

Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. It was said that events like the 2005 Indian Ocean Earthquake were reported in the nude, while news of the London bombings as well as all follow-up reports and interviews done in the following days, were done fully clothed both in studio and in London. The former World Trade Center in New York City. This too has proven to be controversial as observers have complained that stories that warranted "fully-clothed" coverage were, in fact, Western or "Eurocentric" tragedies, while disasters happening elsewhere in the world were deemed "less important." In actuality, the producers of Naked News have instituted a basic rule in this area: No disrobing during any news coverage of a major tragedy anywhere in the world. The anchors have all since continued the tradition of reading tragic events fully clothed. She did not undress when she read the news of the death of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, nor for the September 11, 2001 program (which was not aired).

Sinclair herself has questioned the appropriateness of disrobing while reading of tragic events. Critics charge that the nudity is little more than a gimmick that trivializes important news events, while proponents argue that such gimmicks exist on most television news already; nudity is just a particularly successful one. Naked News has generated some controversy among the media, and even within its own staff. Victoria Sinclair, the first NN announcer and one of only two with journalism experience, has also received some praise for her newsreading ability.

Naked News has earned some praise from established journalists for its coverage of international news items not often covered in mainstream news media. The show is or has been available on pay-per-view or by subscription in various markets in the U.S., Australia, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and even France (dubbed into French). Its offshoot Naked News TV aired as a late-night television series on the Toronto television station Citytv, and (until February 2005) on British satellite channel Get Lucky TV. 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.

It does not however enjoy the same popularity and fame, and there are currently more female than male anchors. A male version of the show was created in 2001 to parallel the female version. By 2002, only one news segment could be viewed freely, and by 2004, no free content remained on the website. Part of the large amounts of web traffic in the site's early days was because the entire newscast could be viewed for free, though subscribers got access to a higher bandwidth feed and other extras.

This number did not refer to the number of actual subscribers of the site, which was believed to be vastly lower. During the height of its popularity, the website was promoted as receiving over 6 million hits per month. The website was popularized entirely by word of mouth, and quickly became an internet meme. Naked News was conceived in 1998 and debuted in 1999 as a web-based news service and featuring an all-female cast.

. Regardless of the gender of the anchor, the male demographic is particularly high for the show. Naked News TV is its offshoot pay-per-view or subscription service. The male and female anchors read the news fully nude or strip as they present their news segments.

Naked News, billing itself as "the program with nothing to hide", is a subscription website featuring a real television newscast prepared in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Radio Tango - Oslo, Norway radio station once featured stripping female weather readers on their website. Comedie - This program on a French cable TV network ran a series promos featuring males and females casually undressing as they read jokes. www.strip-news.de, a now-defunct German language webcast with both male and female announcers.

Robert Milan. Warren Michaels. Brock Stern. Brendan Tanner.

Joshua Holt - Recently announced he was gay in the pages of The Advocate magazine. Cole McQuade. Derek Shaw. Malcolm Matisse.

Jack Lange. Jeremy Chase. Raoul Santos. Lucas Tyler - The first male anchor of the show, now also producer and director, said to bear a strong resemblance to NBC newsman Matt Lauer.

Sarah Winters. Kelli Graham. Kaye Grant. Gretchen Frazier.

Allyson Jones. Erin Sherwood. Devon Calwell - At age 19, she is the youngest cast member. She is unrelated to the Italian model of the same name.

Carmen Russo - At age 42, she is the oldest cast member. Holly Weston - She continued on the show throughout her pregnancy. Brooke Roberts. Diane Foster.

Erica Stevens. Samantha Page. Ashley Jenning. Yukiko Kimura.

Cameron Shore. Gia Gomez. Christine Kerr. Michelle Pantoliano - Former radio & TV broadcaster from New York City.

Lily Kwan. Sandrine Renard. Roxanne West. "Athena the Greek".

Athena King - a.k.a. April Torres. 2002. 2001, and returned in Nov.

Sinclair left the show in Sept. Victoria Sinclair - The first NN reporter, she originally performed solo before additional news anchors were added.