Vice recently announced an agreement with ESPN to produce and distribute films and other programs. In the last several years, the company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in financing and signed deals with major media companies including Rogers Communications, a Canadian media conglomerate. It has also pushed to expand its presence internationally, announcing multiplatform deals with the Times of India Group and the Moby Group, a Middle Eastern media group.

Image Shane Smith, the founder of Vice Media. Credit... Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times

Vice already produces a weekly newsmagazine show for HBO, called “Vice,” which began in 2013.

In a statement, Mr. Tyrangiel said he wanted to make broadcast news more appealing to young viewers.

“We’re going to have to earn people’s time and attention with great reporting and original forms of storytelling,” he said.

Plans for “Vice News Tonight’’ were first announced in March 2015. At the time, Richard Plepler, chief executive of HBO, said the show would debut that year. A spokesman for Vice Media said in an email that the show was “on schedule.”

Vice has been on an aggressive hiring push in the last year, snapping up dozens of journalists from news organizations including MSNBC, the BBC, The Guardian and The New York Times. Along with Mr. Tyrangiel, the company has hired Nellie Bowles, a technology reporter from The Guardian, and Madeleine Haeringer, an executive producer at MSNBC and veteran of NBC News.