Rogers and Vice cancel partnership

Rogers and Vice have consummated their corner try that saw a latter make disdainful calm to be promote on a former’s properties.

In a recover on Monday, Vice Canada pronounced it had acquired full tenure of a possess studio business, that had formerly been common with Rogers Media underneath a two-year $100-million understanding that launched in 2016 and saw Vice furnish calm that was promote on Rogers-owned networks.

One such channel, Viceland, will stop broadcasting on March 31, 2018. But Vice insists a news does not meant a finish of a Canadian operations. “Vice Canada will be announcing new partnerships in a Canadian marketplace soon,” Vice pronounced in a release, adding that a company’s news website is unblushing by a finish of a deal.

Vice constructed 130 hours of Canadian programming underneath a deal, and a association says most some-more is coming. “Vice will continue to grow in Canada in 2018,” Vice Canada boss Ryan Archibald pronounced in a release. “We have a lot of event forward of us and will be announcing some new sparkling partnerships soon.”

For a part, Rogers says it skeleton to develop a content-delivery strategy. “We devise to route the Canadian calm appropriation to other Canadian calm initiatives that improved align with the portfolio and brands,” Rogers pronounced in a separate release.

More to come

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