HBO’s ‘VICE’ Gets TV Channel: Media Company Making 24-Hour Cable Program

Remember when Vice used to be a punk magazine? Well, now they're reportedly getting their own 24-hour cable network. It's being reported that Vice Media, which has grown to become a trusted news source for millennials the world over with its online content and HBO series Vice, has partnered with A&E Networks to create Viceland.

And it's all set to launch in Feb. 2016.

The Huffington Post reports that Viceland will replace H2 and be brought into roughly 70 million homes. Actor, screenwriter and producer – and longtime Vice collaborator – Spike Jonze will reportedly oversee the network. He has summarized it as "a collection of shows," which he believes will hold true to the company itself.

"Our mission with the channel is not that different from what our mission is as a company: it's us trying to understand the world we live in by producing pieces about things we're curious about, or confused about, or that we think are funny."

While the news is huge for the company, perhaps it shouldn't come as such a surprise, as more and more media outlets have begun producing original content—from BuzzFeed to The Huffington Post.

Of course, it's hard to look over the fact that neither of them have a 24-hour cable network.

The company's CEO Shane Smith recently expressed that Vice's new channel "is the next step in the evolution of our brand and the first step in our global roll-out of networks around the world."

Vice Media is reportedly worth $2.5 billion. A&E agreed to buy 10% of the company just last year for an apparent $250 million.

For fans of Vice's HBO series, there's no need to worry; it appears that they still have a deal with the pay cable network through 2018.