CableACE, TV Land, and daytime soap honors once filled winter sweeps. These award shows that no longer exist vanished as cable merged and networks chased cheaper reality programming instead.

Fox aired surfboard trophies until 2019 when producers cited rising costs. The youth telecast joins award shows that no longer exist as an annual summer broadcast tentpole on network TV.

The CableACE Awards honored basic and premium cable before the TCA Awards rose. When the final show aired in 1997, it entered the canon of award shows that no longer exist on any channel.

CBS dropped People's Choice after 2017, but Dick Clark Productions relaunched on E! and NBC. The brand is not among award shows that no longer exist — only the old TV-only fan-vote format is.

Soap Opera Digest Awards and similar daytime prizes dissolved as soaps left the air. Daytime entries on lists of award shows that no longer exist show how genre collapse kills ceremonies.