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TV
Week
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TV
WEEK is a weekly television magazine in Australia,
first published as a Melbourne-only publication
in 1957 (as TV-Radio WEEK) and bearing a strong
affiliation to television station GTV-9.
History
In
1958, the title was shortened to TV WEEK and circulation
expanded to Sydney, then the only other TV market
in Australia.
At
the close of 1958, Melbourne readers of TV WEEK
were invited to vote for their favourite TV personalities
and programs. Graham Kennedy and Panda Lisner
from GTV-9's In Melbourne Tonight were voted Melbourne's
most popular TV personalities. Kennedy then named
the awards the Logies, after the inventor of television,
John Logie Baird. (Although Philo T. Farnsworth
is actually the man who invented television as
we now know it.)
TV
WEEK expanded publication as television launched
in other capital cities and regional areas across
Australia.
1959,
TV WEEK had a competitor, TV Times, published
by the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
1980,
TV WEEK merged with rival publications TV Times
and the Australian version of TV Guide. The revamped
publication continued to be known as TV WEEK and
was now a joint venture between Kerry Packer's
Australian Consolidated Press (who had bought
out the former TV Times from the ABC) and Southdown
Press (later Pacific Publications), with the latter
publishing the magazine on behalf of both parties.
2002,
Packer effectively bought TV WEEK out of the joint
venture. A legal battle over the custody of the
magazines Logie Awards followed as both Australian
Consolidated Press and Pacific Publications claimed
ownership. Pacific wanted to use the Logies to
promote their new rival TV listing What's On Weekly.
Packer won the battle and the Logies stayed connected
to TV WEEK.
News
Gold
Rush - Who will you vote for in the 2007 TV WEEK
Logies?
Yes,
it's that time of the year again — time
for you to decide who deserves Australian TV's
biggest honour, a TV WEEK Logie Award!
Last
year, it was 10th time lucky for Blue Heelers'
John Wood, who won the Gold Logie after being
nominated every year since 1997. His name was
only engraved on the trophy that night, following
the five-week Race For Gold, in which the public
voted via phone and SMS for their favourite of
eight stars.
In
2007, the Race For Gold is on again. Will much-loved
variety-show host Rove McManus step back on stage
to take the trophy for a fourth time? Will Kate
Ritchie be rewarded for her years of loyal service
to Home And Away? Or will a new contender emerge
from the ranks of up-and-comers, like Natalie
Blair, Chris Vance or Jules Lund? It's all up
to you!
In
recognition of the way TV is changing, a new Logie
will be awarded this year — for Most Outstanding
Factual Series. This means that some of our most
popular new shows — such as those which
follow the real-life work of police, doctors and
customs officers — will be judged by an
industry panel, and one will be recognised for
its outstanding contribution
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