Viceland
multinational television channel brand
Viceland (stylized in all caps) was a brand used for television channels owned and programmed by Vice Media. The brand launched on February 29, 2016, with two cable channels in North America. The American version, now known as Vice TV (rebranded from A&E sibling H2), is a joint venture majority-owned by A+E Global Media (which itself owned a stake in Vice Media, alongside a separate ownership stake by A+E's co-owner, the Walt Disney Company). A Canadian version (rebranded from a domestic version of another A&E sibling, Bio) operated as a Category A-licensed specialty channel majority-owned by Rogers Media until its discontinuation on March 31, 2018.
Operating under the creative direction of film director Spike Jonze, Viceland was a lifestyle-oriented channel that primarily aired documentary and reality series aimed towards millennials, including new original series, and adaptations and reruns of existing Vice web series. Some of the network's launch programs were hosted by existing Vice personalities such as Action Bronson and Thomas Morton, as well as notable figures such as Eddie Huang, Elliot Page, and Lance Bangs.
Overview
Precursors
Vice's first foray into television was VBS.tv, an online video joint venture with Viacom's MTV Networks division (specifically, MTV and Logo TV). As part of the venture, MTV Networks had international television distribution rights for the content produced for VBS.tv, resulting in the creation of television specials that compiled content from the service (in the U.S., these aired on MTV2). Vice later produced a series for MTV, The Vice Guide to Everything. In 2013, Vice premiered a self-titled newsmagazine series for HBO. The following year, HBO's parent company Time Warner expressed interest in acquiring a stake in Vice, and proposed the possibility of Vice taking over its struggling cable news channel HLN, and revamping it as a millennial-focused service drawing from its own content.
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