Paradise TV

Sleazy stupidity at Paradise TV

By CJ • July 2, 2008

Their feedback has resulted in wacky, perverted programming – Paradise’s trademark. This “stupid” style has not only been a success domestically but it has also gained a select following overseas. For Paradise, though, pleasing their subscribers through both live and pre-recorded shows is simply one factor; they also must – as surprising as it might sound – maintain an element of decency.

The king of satellite television smut

By CJ • June 30, 2008

“I started Paradise to make money,” he laughs in summing up his motivation to launch the porn channel that provides some of satellite television’s more – as he will gleefully admit – “stupid” programming.

Honoka takes top prize at Adult Broadcasting Awards

By CJ • June 18, 2008

Honoka is the queen of Japanese porn

Government subsidy stripped from ‘naked news’ program

By CJ • May 8, 2008

The 5-minute ‘Nude Sign Language News’ program began in 2004

Tokyo Digital News: Bikinis hit the air

By CJ • May 8, 2008

There’s an old saying that goes: You can take the man out of sleaze but you can’t take the sleaze out of the man. Or something like that. As the founder of sordid satellite network Paradise TV seven years ago, Michiyuki Matsunaga has since moved on to Tokyo Digital News, a slightly less provocative broadcasting station that transmits stories via the Internet and mobile phones in which the announcers are young girls clad in bikinis.

Paradise TV raises funds for AIDS prevention

By CJ • May 6, 2008

When adult satellite channel Paradise TV decides to broadcast a live charity event, they ensure there will be no imitations. It is a recent Sunday afternoon atop the broadcaster’s roof, temporarily converted into a makeshift restaurant. Here stand a group of male subscribers, each ready to dine on a dish – an omelet or perhaps a bowl of pork kimchi – doused in a golden shower dispensed by one of a half-dozen topless AV (adult video) actresses.