The Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. They are the approximate Australian equivalent of the Emmy Awards. Renamed by Graham Kennedy after he won the first "Star of the Year award" [1], 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-publicised award (if not necessarily the most prestigious) is the Gold Logie, which is awarded to the "most popular personality on Australian television".
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The Logies are held in somewhat of a low regard both within the Australian television industry and outside of it. The industry itself is small and parochial enough to have few serious candidates.
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There are long-held suspicions that network publicists engage in mass voting to rig the results. However, no hard evidence has emerged for this, other than the experiment by the satirical newspaper The Chaser, who nearly caused low-profile SBS newsreader Anton Enus to win the Gold Logie. They did so by getting their small readership to buy copies of TV Week and vote for Enus for the award. While the attempt failed (narrowly, according to reports), their failure gives some cause for the widespread derision in the industry (particularly the "quality" end) towards the popular-vote awards.