The CableACE Award was an award that was given from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in American cable television

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 programming. It was created by the National Cable Television Association to serve as a cable television counterpart to the Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

, which before the 1987-88 season did not recognize cable programming. By 1997, the Emmys had long included cable television programming, making the CableACEs obsolete.

At one time, the live awards show could be seen on as many as 12 channels simultaneously. In its last years, one network showed the program, usually Lifetime or TBS.

External links

• CableACE Awards info at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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