Video game awards snub television

Los Angeles

MOVIES have the Oscars, music has the Grammys and both have television, which brings the awards shows to tens of millions of viewers with their live broadcasts.

The video game industry, too, had its awards moment on the small screen with an event called the Video Game Awards that Spike TV broadcast live on its cable channel for a decade.

But then Spike, which has tried to make its programming less male-centric in recent years, seemed to waver in its support for the show. In 2013, the network scaled back the event, streaming it live over the Internet and whittling it down to a one-hour broadcast that replayed on the cable channel days later.

Spike invited the host and producer of the awards show, Geoff Keig…