Fuse (TV channel)

Fuse

Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide Worldwide
Headquarters	New York, New York, U.S.
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
History
Launched	July 1, 1994; 29 years ago (1994-07-01)
Replaced	NuvoTV (merged into Fuse on September 30, 2015)
Former names	MuchMusic USA (1994–2001) MMUSA (2001–2003)
Links
Website	www.fuse.tv
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 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]