TV Week Logie Awards
| Logie Award | |
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Gold Logie Award statuette
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| Awarded for | Excellence in Australian television |
| Sponsored by | TV Week |
| Location | Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | TV Week |
| First awarded | 1960 |
| Website | Logies official site |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network |
Nine Network (1959–present) ABC (1961–1965) Seven Network (1989–1995) Network Ten (1981–1993) |
| Runtime | 3 hours |
The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards) is an annual institution celebrating Australian television, which have been since 1960. Coined by Graham Kennedy after he won the first Star of the Year award in 1959, the name Logie awards honours John Logie Baird, who invented television as a practical medium. Awards are given in many categories, but the most widely publicized award is the Gold Logie, which is awarded to the most popular personality on Australian television. The Logies are considered the Australian counterpart to the Emmy Awards in the United States
Four Corners, Neighbours, Play School and Home and Away are the only programs that have been inducted collectively into the Logie Hall of Fame. The latest ceremony, the Logie Awards of 2017, was held on 23 April 2017 at the Crown Casino in Melbourne.
The first awards, known as the TV Week Awards, were instigated by TV Week magazine after the first voting coupons were released in the magazine in late 1958, two years after the introduction of television in Australia. The first awards were presented on 15 January 1959 on an episode of In Melbourne Tonight. Only Melbourne television personalities were nominated and awards were given in eight categories, including two for American programs.
The following year, Kennedy coined the name 'Logie Awards'. In the same year, the first Gold Logie, considered by some to be equivalent to the 'Star of the Year Award' presented in 1959, was presented.
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