Vice Media is now worth more than The New York Times and Oprah Winfrey

Vice Media's edgy, counterculture, take-no-prisoners reporting has made the millennial-friendly brand one of the most valuable media corporations in the world. And now, Vice has sealed a 24-hour cable channel deal with A&E. Viceland, as the new channel will be called, will take over A&E's H2 channel in February, with Spike Jonze as creative director.

The folks at A&E are hardly the only ones rooting for Vice. Disney also recently invested $200 million in Vice, and 20th Century Fox has likewise put many millions into the company.

Today, Vice is valued as high as $4.5 billion, The New York Times reports. That's a rather astounding number — so let's put it in perspective. Vice is potentially more valuable than...

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• AOL ($4.4 billion)
• The Dallas Cowboys ($4 billion)
• Oprah Winfrey ($3.2 billion)
• Yelp ($3 billion)
• The New York Times (Around $2 billion)
• Github ($2 billion)
• BuzzFeed ($1.5 billion)
• Chuck E. Cheese ($1.3 billion)
• DraftKings ($1.2 billion)
• Vox Media ($1 billion)

Oh, and apparently Vice is worth roughly 18 Washington Posts. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchased that august newspaper for $250 million in 2013.