Vice TV channel coming to cable

Here at VICE Canada, we’re extra-thrilled to tell you all that we’re producing ten original Canadian series for VICELAND, in partnership with Rogers, which cover the gamut of investigative documentaries, travel, food, film, and entertainment storytelling.

News of Vice’s TV network was first announced earlier this week, with Vice agreeing to take over and rebrand A&E’s “H2” channel, which now serves as a sister station to the more well-known History channel.

New York rapper Action Bronson’s popular “F*ck, That’s Delicious” Vice show is going to reach even more viewers with the launch of new network, Viceland.

The edgy digital content studio, which co-founders Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith launched in Montreal in 1994 with a print magazine, confirmed it has launched a 24/7 Canadian linear channel, scheduled to bow in winter 2016 and the official opening of a Vice Canada production studio in Toronto. “We’ve been making video for ten years, and now with mobile and TV, we have our content traveling across all screens”, he explained. VICELAND will be distributed in approximately 70 million homes, and will feature hundreds of hours of completely new programming developed and produced entirely in-house by the young creative minds that are the heart and soul of VICE, and the driving force behind its success over the last decade.

Financial Times had reported the news on Tuesday.

“We moved to the States because we were hitting the ceiling in Canada in terms of finding an audience that was consuming our content. It was a small audience, and to go bigger we would have had to change our content, which we didn’t want to do”, he explained.

In Canada, Vice and Rogers have been working together since October 2014, with Vice Canada properties forming part of a $100 million joint venture between Rogers and Vice Media. In other words: classic Vice, on your TV, all the time.