Fuse (TV channel)
Fuse is an American television channel owned by Fuse Media, LLC, that launched in 1994.
Country
United States
Nationwide
Worldwide
New York, New York, U.S.
English
NTSC
HDTV 1080i
(HD feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SD feed)
Fuse Media, LLC (Branding licensed from CHUM Limited as MuchMusic USA, and MMUSA from 1994 to 2003)
Miguel Roggero
(Chairman and CEO)
July 1, 1994
NuvoTV
(merged into Fuse on September 30, 2015)
MuchMusic USA (1994–2001)
MMUSA (2001–2003)
It was originally known as MuchMusic USA, a localized version of the Canadian cable channel Much, and was dedicated to music-based programming; the channel relaunched under its current branding in 2003. Fuse was acquired by SiTV Media in 2014 and, after merging with the Latino-oriented NuvoTV in 2015, would shift its focus to general entertainment and lifestyle programming targeting multicultural young adults.
By February 2015, Fuse was available to approximately 71,491,000 pay television households (61.4% of households with television) in the United States.[1] With a number of cable operators discontinuing their carriage in the years since, the channel currently has an availability of around 38 million pay television households as of 2018.[2]