Naked News

. The family football and tourism enterprises were financial disasters; as well as Tanzi's attempt to rival Berlusconi (another rags-to-riches Italian success story) by buying Odeon TV, only to sell it at a loss of about €45 million. Among the imitators on the internet:. After his arrest, Tanzi reportedly admitted during questioning at Milan's San Vittore prison, that he diverted funds from Parmalat into Parmatour and elsewhere. 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. Among the questionable accounting practices used by Parmalat: it sold itself credit linked notes, in effect placing a bet on its own credit worthiness in order to conjure up an asset out of thin air. Past male anchors are:. Italians were shocked that such a vast and established empire could crumble so quickly.

The current male anchors are:. Tanzi, once a symbol of unlimited success, was detained hours after the firm was declared officially insolvent and eventually charged with financial fraud and money laundering. Past female anchors are:. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi initiated a fraud investigation and appointed Bondi to administer the company's rescue. The current female anchors are:. Parmalat's bank, Bank of America, then released a document showing €3.95 billion in Bonlat's bank account as a forgery. 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. Tanzi himself resigned as chairman and CEO.

Since the show's inception in 1999, there has been much turnover among the newscasters, and many guest anchors. Enrico Bondi was called in to help the company. The show features occasional on-the-street interviews by topless newscasters, which are made possible by Ontario's Topfree equality laws. In December, Del Soldato resigned, unable to get cash from Epicurum fund, needed to pay debts and make bond payments. As such, most of the show's crew comes from the Toronto area. Ferraris resigned less than a week later replaced by Luciano Del Soldato. Most of the show's announcers have been recruited through classified ads in alternative newspapers in Toronto. The crisis became public in November when questions were raised about transactions with mutual fund Epicurum, another Cayman-based company linked to Parmalat causing its stock to plummet.

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. After this CFO Fausto Tonna resigned in March replaced by Alberto Ferraris. 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 first indication of financial problems came in early 2003 as the company tried to sell €500 million in bonds. The anchors have all since continued the tradition of reading tragic events fully clothed. In 1999, Parmalat set up a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands called Bonlat. 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). At the end of 2003, one of the biggest corporate scandals in history came to light as an €8 billion hole was discovered in Parmalat's accounting records.

Sinclair herself has questioned the appropriateness of disrobing while reading of tragic events. The post-listing expansions include:. 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. Four decades later the company had grown into a multinational corporation diversifying into milk, dairy, beverage, bakery, and other product lines in the 1980s, becoming listed on the Milan stock exchange in 1990, and expanding further in the 1990's. Naked News has generated some controversy among the media, and even within its own staff. In 1961, Calisto Tanzi, a 22-year old college dropout, opened a small pasteurisation plant in Parma, Italy. 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. Over 36,000 workers around the world collect Parmalat pay packets, and 5,000 Italian dairy farms are dependent on the company for the bulk of their business. 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 worldwide operations include almost 140 production centers. 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. Parmalat SpA, an Italian dairy and food corporation and Europe's biggest dairy company, was declared bankrupt in late 2003. 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. TV network, Odeon TV (sold).

It does not however enjoy the same popularity and fame, and there are currently more female than male anchors. Francesca - chief executive. A male version of the show was created in 2001 to parallel the female version. ParmaTour - travel group (bankrupt, sold)