ACE TV
{{short description|Former community TV channel in Adelaide, South Australia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox television channel
| name = ACE TV
| logo =
| logo_size =
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1994|05|df=yes|}}
| closed_date = {{end date and age|2002|12|df=yes}}
| replaced_by = Channel 44 (Adelaide)
| picture_format = Analogue 4:3
| owner = Adelaide Community and Educational Television Incorporated
| country = Australia
| language = English
| area = Adelaide
| terr_serv_1 = Analogue
| terr_chan_1 = UHF 31
}}
ACE TV was a free-to-air community television channel in Adelaide, South Australia which broadcast from May 1994 to December 2002. ACE TV was cancelled in 2002 due to breaching of licence conditions.{{cite web|url=http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_91276 |title=ABA cancels ACE TV licence |date=5 December 2002 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Authority |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427015709/http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc%3DPC_91276 |archive-date=27 April 2013 |access-date=17 April 2016 |url-status=dead }} The last ACE TV broadcast on-screen was in May 2002. ACE TV was superseded by C31 Adelaide, which was launched on 23 April 2004.{{cite news |last=Yeaman|first=Simon |date=21 February 2004 |title=Community TV ready for comeback |url=http://www.c31.com.au/viewupdate.asp?id=7 |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |access-date=17 April 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820020646/http://www.c31.com.au/viewupdate.asp?id=7 |archivedate=20 August 2006 |url-status=dead}}
Controversy
In 1994, the station courted controversy over its plans to air a documentary film, A Search for Truth in History. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry expressed its "strongest possible objection to having your station serve as a vehicle for the broadcast of what appears to be neo-Nazi propaganda.” The film, which featured Holocaust denier, David Irving was ultimately dropped by the station, saying that the film is "a denigration of the Holocaust" and that it would not air the film and risk the chance to "incite racial acrimony."[https://www.jta.org/archive/responding-to-voices-of-protest-australian-tv-cancels-neo-nazi-film Responding to Voices of Protest, Australian Tv Cancels Neo-nazi Film] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 16 August 1994
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oof5arYPEcs Today Tonight report on ACE TV]
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Category:Television stations in Adelaide
Category:English-language television stations in Australia
Category:Defunct television channels in Australia
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1994
Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 2002
Category:1994 establishments in Australia
Category:2002 disestablishments in Australia
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