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02-01-2019, 21:43
Comcast, Verizon snuff out Fuse carriage DetailsJoseph O'Halloran | 02 January 2019 It may have ended 2018 with a flourish but youth-oriented multi-cultural cross-platform entertainment media brand Fuse Media has made a challenging start to the new year after being dropped by US networks Comcast and Verizon.Despite showing, said Fuse, the ability to continue carriage of the network at highly-competitive rates, the Verizon FiOS IPTV network dropped the Fuse channel on 31 December 2018 while cable giant Comcast did likewise at the same point after more than a decade of carriage.Fuse, part-owned by singer Jennifer Lopez, claims that it is currently one of the few networks experiencing viewership growth and states that from 2015 through to the end of the third quarter of 2018, its ratings had risen more than 50% in the P18-34 age group while overall ad-supported cable has declined 34% in the demo during the same timeframe. In addition. Q3, Fuse said that in Q34 2018 it delivered a 74% multi-cultural audience competition, ranking it fifth among English-language ad-supported entertainment cable networks. At the beginning of December 2018, Fuse Media entered the scripted animation genre by greenlighting Sugar and Toys. With that in mind, Fuse slammed Verizon FiOS as making a final carriage deal offer that in its opinion was unacceptable. It regards the impact of the IPTV provider