Fuse (TV channel)
Fuse (stylized as fuse) is an American digital cable and satellite television channel dedicated largely to music, and features original series & specials, exclusive interviews, live concerts, and blocks of music videos.
Fuse accommodates a wide range of musical tastes, while targeting a demographic of young adults between 18 and 34 years old. It also offers music content through its website, its video on demand service, and though its "Fuse Mobile" service.
As of February 2015, Fuse is available to approximately 71,491,000 pay television households (61.4% of households with television) in the United States.
On September 30, 2015, sister channel NuvoTV was folded into Fuse, and the network began expanding beyond music programming and introduced a new programming slate targeting "New Young Americans", with the combined channel's programming lineup being refocused to feature original music, comedy, culture and lifestyle programming.
History
As MuchMusic USA
The channel originally launched on July 1, 1994, as MuchMusic USA; it was originally founded as a joint venture between Cablevision and Toronto-based CHUM Limited. CHUM would later sell its 50% stake in the network to Cablevision, but allowed the continued use of the "MuchMusic" name under a brand licensing agreement. Initially, the network mirrored the schedule of its Canadian equivalent with U.S. advertising, but with French language programming and programs licensed from MTV and VH1 blacked out and replaced with either reruns of other programs or infomercials.
