FUSE Media, one of the Nation’s few remaining Latino-owned and managed independent television programming networks, had just completed its Latino management-team buyout when AT&T (including DIRECTV, U-Verse, and streaming platforms) refused to renew FUSE’s distribution agreement at financial terms that would allow the network to continue successful operations. What had been a victory celebration of Latino media ownership looked like it might become a funeral... bankruptcy at the hands of the largest Pay-TV/MVPD provider in the U.S.

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