ACE TV

ACE TV
CountryAustralia
Broadcast areaAdelaide
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture formatAnalogue 4:3
Ownership
OwnerAdelaide Community and Educational Television Incorporated
History
LaunchedMay 1994; 30 years ago (1994-05)
ClosedDecember 2002; 22 years ago (2002-12)
Replaced byChannel 44 (Adelaide)
Availability
Terrestrial
AnalogueUHF 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.[1] 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 ACE TV was superseded by C31 Adelaide, which was launched on 23 April 2004.[2]

Controversy

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In 1994, the station courted controversy over its plans to air a documentary film, A Search for Truth in History.[3] 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.”[3] 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."[3]

References

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  1. ^ "ABA cancels ACE TV licence". Australian Broadcasting Authority. 5 December 2002. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  2. ^ Yeaman, Simon (21 February 2004). "Community TV ready for comeback". The Advertiser. Adelaide. Archived from the original on 20 August 2006. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Responding to Voices of Protest, Australian Tv Cancels Neo-nazi Film The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 16 August 1994
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