Fuse Media is a Latino-owned entertainment company headquartered in Glendale, California that produces, curates, and distributes original content for culturally diverse young adults. Its portfolio includes the Fuse cable channel, the FM music spin-off channel, the subscription streaming service Fuse+, multiple free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels, Fuse Studios (in-house production), and Ignition Studios (external production and consulting). The company targets multicultural millennial and Gen-Z audiences in the United States with original documentaries, unscripted series, and independent films.
Fuse traces its roots to 1994, when Cablevision and Canadian broadcaster CHUM Limited launched MuchMusic USA as a music video alternative to MTV. Cablevision bought out CHUM in 2000 and relaunched the channel as Fuse in 2003. After passing through Madison Square Garden Company ownership, Fuse was acquired in 2014 by SiTV — backed in part by Jennifer Lopez — for $226 million, and merged with the Latino-oriented NuvoTV in 2015 under the Fuse Media banner. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019 after losing Comcast and Verizon carriage, then emerged the following year under a management buyout led by CEO Miguel Roggero, making Fuse Media one of the few nationally distributed minority-owned media brands in the U.S. In 2021 Roggero launched the Fuse+ streaming service (starting at $2.99/month) alongside several FAST channels. In early 2026 Fuse Media partnered with Complex to launch Complex TV and with Billboard to launch Billboard Español TV.