Vice Will Attempt to Take on the Evening News Giants With Upcoming 'Vice News Tonight'

Vice Media is planning to roll out a nightly newscast on HBO dubbed Vice News Tonight. The half-hour evening news program is presumably looking to rival the biggest players of the genre such as Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News, David Muir of ABC World News Tonight, and Scott Pelley of CBS Evening News. “The nightly news hasn’t changed its format in 60 years, whereas the way most viewers – particularly younger viewers – consume information has changed dramatically,” said Vice’s executive vice president of content Josh Tyrangiel. “We understand that people aren’t going to watch Vice News Tonight out of obligation. We’re going to have to earn people’s time and attention with great reporting and original forms of storytelling.”

The media company has already garnered a ton of success with its Emmy-winning weekly news series on HBO and this additional program will only bring more acclaim to what was once just a punk magazine. “I think there’s a huge white space,” Vice CEO Shane Smith told Variety. “We have political contacts and military contacts. We have terrorist contacts. We have contact with everybody, and can go in and get the story out. I think I would put our team up against any other team that’s out there.”

Vice Media’s upcoming HBO show will launch on September 26 at 7:30 p.m. and will be available on Time Warner’s HBO Go, HBO Now and on-demand. Visit the company’s official HBO page to learn more.