Verizon's Streaming Vice Network Will Beat A&E's Vice Channel to Market
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Vice is getting more than one TV channel after all, except the one it announced on Tuesday won’t be available through people’s cable-TV boxes. It will also arrive first.
Before Vice realizes its reported deal to take over A&E Networks’ H2 cable-TV channel next year, Vice will debut a channel on Verizon’s upcoming internet-delivered TV service, which the telecom giant has said it plans to introduce later this summer. The channel is expected to skew toward Vice’s cultural content such as food and travel programs, as opposed to news, and will feature original programs produced exclusively for the service, starting with Vice’s upcoming interview series “Autobiographies.”
Verizon’s internet TV offering is another effort by pay-TV providers to serve consumers who don’t pay for traditional, and traditionally expensive, services. TV into customers. Dish Network has already rolled out an internet TV service, and Comcast said earlier this week that it plans to follow suit.
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