Is Fuse TV a specialty pay TV cable channel?
Fuse TV is a music video-oriented television channel owned by Cablevision through its subsidiary Madison Square Garden, L.P.. The network began as MuchUSA, in 1994 simulcasting Canada’s MuchMusic as a partnership between its current owners Cablevision and MuchMusic’s then owner CHUM Limited. The beginning of the end of MuchUSA would begin in spring of 2001 when CHUM sold their half of the network to Cablevision. History Originally, the network was a full simulcast of MuchMusic Canada with the exception of localized commercials co-owned by Cablevision and CHUM Limited. After CHUM Limited sold its half of the network to Cablevision, it allowed Cablevision to continue running MuchMusic programming and to use the MuchMusic name under a license agreement. However, in the spring of 2001, Cablevision began airing its own programming on the network under the name “MMUSA” or “MuchMusic USA.” Initially, the programming was a locally aired block of music videos with MuchMusic Canada bumpers betwe
Fuse TV is a music video-oriented television channel owned by Cablevision through its subsidiary Madison Square Garden, L.P.. The network began as MuchUSA, in 1994 simulcasting Canada’s MuchMusic as a partnership between its current owners Cablevision and MuchMusic’s then owner CHUM Limited. The beginning of the end of MuchUSA would begin in spring of 2001 when CHUM sold their half of the network to Cablevision. In its early days, Fuse programming was very music intensive. The network indirectly bashed MTV with a slogan touting Fuse as the channel “where the music went.” Fuse’s advertising in this period, by New York-based Amalgamated, generated controversy both through its more direct criticism of MTV (Viacom, corporate owner of MTV, protested when a Fuse billboard appeared across from its headquarters featuring Sally Struthers’ plea to “save the music video”) and through its bold parodies – particularly that of the iPod ad campaign.[2][3][4][5] In late 2005, Fuse had a week of end-to
