CableACE Award

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"ACE Award" redirects here. For the Latin ACE Awards, see Association of Latin Entertainment Critics.

The CableACE Award (earlier known as the ACE Awards; ACE was an acronym for Award for Cable Excellence) was an award that was given from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in American cable television programming. It was created by the National Cable Television Association to serve as a cable television counterpart to the Emmy Award, which prior to the 1987-88 season did not recognize cable programming. After 1997, the Emmys had included cable television programming to the point that a separate cable awards show was deemed unnecessary.

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.

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