Vice Media’s nightly news show—creatively titled Vice News Tonight—will officially debut at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 on HBO. (FishbowlNY)
It will air less than two hours before the first scheduled presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (TVNewser)
With a 7:30 p.m. ET first airing on HBO, and the ability to watch on HBO Go, HBO Now and on demand, the newscast will air in the evening fringe time period, after the network newscasts and before prime time. The three network evening newscasts are watched by an average of 21 million viewers every night. Vice has not publicly set viewership goals. (Adweek)
Vice News Tonight will be a half-hour nightly newscast, and will air weeknights on HBO. The company already has a weekly newsmagazine that airs on HBO and its success seems to have fueled big ambitions. (Variety)
Plans for Vice News Tonight were first announced in March 2015. Vice has been on an aggressive hiring push in the last year, snapping up dozens of journalists from news organizations including MSNBC, the BBC, The Guardian and The New York Times. (NYT)