an
American pay television news and satire channel owned by Fusion Media Group, a multi-platform media company subsidiary of Univision Communications, which relied in part on the resources of its parent company's news division, Noticias Univision.23 In addition to conventional television distribution, Fusion was streamed online and on mobile platforms to subscribers of participating cable and satellite providers.4
Launched on October 28, 2013, the network's content featured news, lifestyle, pop culture, satire and entertainment aimed at
English-speaking millennials, including those of a Hispanic background; the channel was Univision's first major push into
English-language programming.5 Fusion was
based in "NewsPort", an expansion of the Univision campus (formerly a freight warehouse) at 8551 NW 30th Terrace in the Miami suburb of Doral,
Florida, which was shared with Noticias Univision and Univision flagship station WLTV-DT; it maintained additional studios in Los Angeles and bureaus in Mexico City, New York City, and Washington,
D.C.36 The channel ceased operations on December 31,
2021.
Apart from being Univision Communications' first attempt in the world of
English-language cable networks before El Rey Network, Fusion was ABC News' third attempt in the world of
24-hour cable news. In 1982, ABC News and Group W (then a division of Westinghouse) first launched a
24-hour news channel called Satellite News Channel.
On
January 10,
2020, Dish Network removed Fusion TV from the lineup. On January 23,
2020, AT&T removed the network from the lineups of DirecTV and U-Verse TV, along with their related streaming services
