Vice's new TV channel VICELAND will launch on Sky TV in the UK (SKY)
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Vice Media has confirmed a non-exclusive deal with Sky to broadcast its first TV channel in Europe.
Launching in September, the channel is one of 12 that Vice plans to launch across Europe in just 18-months.
The international version of VICELAND will include most of the shows that appear on the American channel, including “Weediquette,” "Gaycation” and "F--k, That's Delicious."
VICELAND has already launched in the US. The channel plans to bring shrinking millennial audiences back to traditional TV.
Shane Smith, VICE co-founder and CEO, had talks with many media companies including Virgin Media, BT, and Netflix before making the deal with Sky, The Guardian reported.
YouTube/ViceShane Smith, VICE co-founder and CEO said in a press release: "This is the biggest move yet in our long love affair with our British and Irish audience. VICELAND is going to give them a whole new way to experience VICE content—on their own televisions, around the clock."
Vice already has commercial links with Sky. Fox — owned by Rupert Murdoch — has a 39% stake in Sky and a 5% stake in Vice. Sky will handle ad sales for the new channel, the statement said.
Shane Smith has previously expressed his motivation to get a share of TV advertising, which he described as "75% of the world's advertising budget."
"Why don't I get that 75% while all these other guys who don't know what the f--k they're doing are getting it?" Smith asked the Hollywood Reporter back in February.
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