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Paradise TV (パラダイステレビ) is a Japanese adult TV production company and broadcaster located in Tokyo. It has been publicized in Japan and in Western countries for its outrageous programs.

Company history and information
Paradise TV was founded in 1998 by Michiyuki Matsunaga who has frankly stated "I started Paradise to make money". Paradise TV broadcasts 24 hours a day via Japan's largest satellite TV provider SKYPerfecTV!, producing some 60-70 different shows per month. In 2005 Paradise had 40,000 subscibers with additional customers in Hong Kong and Hawaii.They accounted for about 15-20% of SKYPerfecTV!'s adult programming. Paradise broadcasts on SKYPerfecTV! Channel 913 and on Channel 946 in HD. Subsribers pay 2100 yen (about $21) a month per channel.

Matsunaga stated in 2005 that annual company revenues from SKYPerfecTV! amounted to 1.1 billion yen (about $11 million) with another 300 million yen coming from their website and other sales. He predicted that by 2010 combined revenues could reach 6 billion yen.

The company has its offices are in Tokyo's Shinjuku district where its employs a staff of about 80. Founder and President Matsunaga left the company in 2005 to start up Shinjuku Broadcasting News, which uses bikini-clad models to deliver news via mobile phones and the Internet.

Programming
Paradise TV's programming philosophy as opposed to other adult TV channels is summed up by one of their executives: "Paradise is totally different ... [w]e have many more stupid shows ... we concentrate on making them." Paradise does not have any professional writers, instead everyone on the staff contributes new ideas.

Nude Sign Language News
Nude Sign Language News (Hadaka no Shuwa News) began in 2004 on Paradise TV as a 5 minute segment (directed by Hajime Shimajiri) in the Naked News Station program with a clothed sign-language signer in a corner of the screen while a naked anchor read the news. By 2007, signer Miyabi Fujino was occupying the full screen and disrobing while signing the news. According to a spokesman from Paradise TV, "It took us one year to find a girl who could do sign language and take off her clothes simultaneously."

In 2005, Paradise TV applied for a subsidy through the Broadcasting Programming Center of Japan, which via a contract with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), can provide funds to benefit hearing-impaired viewers. The subsidy, which began in September 2006 and ran to March 2007, totalled 150,000 yen (about $1500) with a second subsidy of 250,000 yen (about $2500) due to run October 2007 to March 2008. But in August 2007 the government ministry modified the program to restrict adult content. Paradise has continued to produce the show.