Country | United States Canada (from 1994 to 2003) |
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Broadcast area | Nationwide Worldwide |
Headquarters | New York, New York, U.S. Toronto, Ontario, Canada (from 1994 to 2003) |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | NTSC HDTV 1080i (HD feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SD feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Fuse Media, LLC (Branding licensed from CHUM Limited as MuchMusic USA, and MMUSA from 1994 to 2003) |
Key people | Miguel Roggero (Chairman and CEO) |
Sister channels | FM MuchMusic (1994–2003) Citytv (1994–2003) |
History | |
Launched | July 1, 1994 |
Replaced | NuvoTV (merged into Fuse on September 30, 2015) |
Former names | MuchMusic USA (1994–2001) MMUSA (2001–2003) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
DirecTV Stream | Internet Protocol television |
Fubo TV | Internet Protocol television |
Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
Fuse is an American television channel owned by Fuse Media, LLC, that launched in 1994.
It was originally known as MuchMusic USA, a localized version of the Canadian cable channel MuchMusic, owned by CHUM Limited which was also the parent company of Citytv in Toronto 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 34 million pay television households as of 2022.[2]