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Logie Awards
Annual Australian television awards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine TV Week. The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards.
Logie Awards | |
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Current: Logie Awards of 2024 | |
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Awarded for | Excellence in Australian television |
Sponsored by | TV Week |
Location | Sydney, Australia |
Country | Australia |
Presented by | TV Week |
First awarded | 1959; 65 years ago (1959) (as The TV Week Awards) |
Website | www |
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Runtime | 3 hours+ |
The Gold Logie is the most prestigious award and the industry's highest honour; it's awarded to the Most Popular Personality on Australian Television for the previous year. The award receives much publicity and media attention. Awards are presented in 20 categories, representing both industry and public voted prizes
The event has been strongly associated with the Nine Network, who have hosted the ceremony on the most occasions, and TV and former radio personality Bert Newton, particularly in the early days, who served as a solo host of the ceremony on 17 occasions, with a constant run from 1966 until 1980 and as co-host on three other occasions. Over the years, the Logies have been hosted in Melbourne and Sydney. From 2018 to 2022, the ceremony was held on the Gold Coast before the 2023 ceremony was announced as moving to Sydney for the first time in 37 years.