Some vices just grow over time. Coming in September, Vice Media will debut its first nightly newscast, Vice News Tonight, on HBO.
Vice News Tonight is the product of HBO’s four-year extension of its deal with Vice, which was agreed to in March 2015. It will debut on the network in September. Vice News Tonight will be a half-hour newscast, running for 48 weeks a year and featuring the visceral on-the-ground reporting found on the weekly HBO show Vice, but now on a nightly basis.
“The nightly news hasn’t changed its format in 60 years, whereas the way most viewers — particularly younger viewers — consume information has changed dramatically,” said Josh Tyrangiel, head of Vice News Tonight, who joined the company after stints as chief content officer for Bloomberg and editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, in a press release. “We understand that people aren’t going to watch Vice News Tonight out of obligation. We’re going to have to earn people’s time and attention with great reporting and original forms of storytelling, something Vice has excelled at for several years now.”
This may be Vice’s first foray into delivering daily news on television, but according to the company’s CEO, Vicenews.com is proof Vice News Tonight can work. “We launched Vice News about a year ago online,” Vice CEO Shane Smith said on CNBC’s Closing Bell last March. “We’ve been doing hourly news, we’ve been doing daily news on that platform.”
Since Tyrangiel came to Vice from Bloomberg in October, remnants of some of the biggest news organizations have formed Vice News Tonight‘s staff. Madeleine Haeringer, former senior producer at NBC News and MSNBC, joined in April as executive producer. Along with Haeringer, Christina Vallice (NBC Nightly News), Evan McMorris-Santoro (BuzzFeed), Nellie Bowles (The Guardian), and Ravi Somaiya (The New York Times) join a litany of high-profile new hires.
Vice News Tonight will premiere at 7:30 p.m. ET on September 26 on HBO, and will be available on HBO Now, HBO Go, HBO On Demand, and its affiliate portals.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?