Vice Looks to Tighten Its TV Grip on Millennials

摘要

Last month, Vice Media chief creative officer Eddy Moretti told folks at the Digital Entertainment World Conference that, "Some of our recent investors might have designs for aVice channel soon." This was not news. Vice was reportedly in talks with Time Warner in 2014 about taking over floundering news network HLN-talks that stalled midyear. Then, during a December Paley Media Council conversation in January, Vice CEO Shane Smith floated the possibility of his company acquiring HLN.