Vice News Tonight
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Vice News Tonight logo/title-card
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| Genre | News program |
| Created by | Shane Smith |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 50 (as of 12/23/16) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Madeleine Haeringer |
| Running time | 30 mins. |
| Production company(s) | Vice Original Series |
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| Original network | HBO |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | October 10, 2016 – present |
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| Website | |
Vice News Tonight is a nightly American news program broadcast on HBO. It premiered on October 10, 2016. It is HBO's first ever daily series.
Josh Tyrangiel, Vice executive vice-president for news content said that the idea came an effort to try to engage viewers, and not simply to summarize the news. He said that the purpose is "actually placing stories in context and understanding them in a timely way (is) where the great value is," and that Vice is focused on "trying to build a long-term relationship with viewers that's focused on how the world works."
Nina Rosenstein, executive vice president for HBO, said that the show came about because HBO "[wanted] the show to be a good fit for viewers looking for a traditional experience, as well as for those millennials who prefer to get their content on a tablet or a smartphone and want a more interactive experience."
In a statement, Vice Media said that Vice News Tonight is a news program with "no ads, no anchors, and no censors."
A typical episode will use a mix of voiceovers, graphics and video packages to dive into national and global news, technology, the environment, economics, and pop culture. The program is devoted to the idea of not using on-air news anchors.
Episodes can be modified hours before airtime to accommodate more-newsworthy segments, and the show can go live if necessary.
Vice News Tonight will air 48 weeks per year, and has been given a three-year commitment from the network.
Each episode will also be available on Vice News' website one week after it premieres. Episodes will also be available on HBO Go and HBO Now the day after they air. The show has also designed with touch-screen capabilities, so viewers watching on HBO's digital platforms can pull up related documents, graphs and charts within episodes.
In Canada, the series debuted on October 10, 2016 with broadcasts on Viceland.
In Australia, the series is broadcast on SBS Viceland.
In a review of the first episode, Mike Hale of The New York Times said the show was "new, but no game changer", saying "As hackneyed, shallow and formulaic as network newscasts can be, they still offer something in terms of immediacy and comprehensiveness that Vice News Tonight, as it’s currently constituted, can’t pretend to compete with. If you like the Vice sensibility, though, you might enjoy the show’s capsule version of it. Just don’t expect the news to be new."
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