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34th Logie Awards
Date13 March 1992
SiteRadisson President Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria
Hosted bySteve Vizard
Highlights
Gold LogieJana Wendt
Hall of FameFour Corners
Most awardsBrides of Christ (5)
Most nominationsE Street (5)
Television coverage
NetworkSeven Network

The 34th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on 13 March 1992, in a ceremony hosted by Steve Vizard at the Radisson President Hotel in Melbourne. The ceremony was broadcast on the Seven Network.[1] Guests included John Stamos, Dennis Waterman, Bob Hawke and Campbell McComas.[2] Miniseries Brides of Christ received the most awards (5), including both Most Popular and Most Outstanding Telemovie or Miniseries. Soap opera E Street received two wins from five nominations, while sketch comedy show Fast Forward won three awards from four nominations. Jana Wendt won the Gold Logie for A Current Affair and Four Corners was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Nominees and winners

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The nominations were published in the 7 March 1992 issue of TV Week.[3] Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.[4][5]

National awards

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Gold Logie

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Gold Logie

Acting and presenting

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Steve Vizard (left), Most Popular Light Entertainment / Comedy Male Personality winner
Magda Szubanski, Most Popular Light Entertainment / Comedy Female Personality winner
Jimmy Barnes, Most Popular Music Video winner
Acting and presenting
Most Popular Actor in a Telemovie or Miniseries
Most Popular Actress in a Telemovie or Miniseries
Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Male Personality
Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Female Personality
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Acting and presenting
Most Popular Telemovie or Miniseries
Most Popular Public Affairs Program
Most Popular Children's Program
Most Popular Music Video

Most Outstanding Programs

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Most Outstanding Programs
Most Outstanding Telemovie or Miniseries
Most Outstanding Achievement in News
Most Outstanding Achievement by a Regional Station
Most Outstanding Single Documentary or Documentary Series
  • The Time of Your Life (ABC TV)

State awards

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Performers

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Hall of Fame

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After 40 years on Australian television, Four Corners became the ninth inductee into the TV Week Logie Logie Hall of Fame.[4]

Gold Logie controversy

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I'm sorry she's not here. She's sorry she's not here, Jana, as she always does, put the program first. I know she regrets she's not here. It's a shame.

—Peter Meakin while accepting Wendt's Gold Logie.[4]

The ceremony ended in controversy when A Current Affair host Jana Wendt was not present to accept her Gold Logie.[4] It marked the first time in the history of the awards that the winner of the Gold Logie did not personally accept the statuette.[4] Wendt was required to stay in the Sydney-based studios after the end of A Current Affair for an extended period to be able to cover any late breaking stories for time zones that would normally get ACA on a delay.[6] TV Week claimed that they knew about a week in advance, three weeks after Wendt had posed with her fellow Gold Logie nominees for a TV Week photo shoot, that she may be missing from the awards presentation.[4] Nine Network executives were said to be able to work around the challenges of ACA's production schedule if TV Week could assure them that Wendt was going to win the Gold. TV Week chose not to disclose that information to Nine, citing "the interests of maintaining the integrity and security of the Logies".[4] The offer of a specially arranged flight to get Wendt from Sydney to Melbourne after ACA in time to witness the announcement of the Gold Logie winner was not enough to sway Nine's executives. Wendt's Gold Logie was ultimately accepted by Nine's head of current affairs at the time, Peter Meakin.[4]

Reception

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Writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Luck gave the ceremony a mixed to negative review, calling it "the pits."[7] He wrote "The setting was ordinary, the jokes were bad – and cruel to boot (even about the network that was putting them on) – and the entertainment was abysmal."[7] Luck singled out Dannii Minogue's performance, which he thought might have been hampered by a sound problem, and a comedy routine with Magda Szubanski and actor Dennis Waterman as examples of how bad he thought the entertainment was.[7] Luck believed the Logies had chosen the winners well though, citing Wendt, Byrnes, McTernan and Four Corners as deserving of their accolades.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Dempsey, Shelley (8 March 1992). "The winner is..." The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 February 2025 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "34th TV Week Logie Awards, 1992". Tvweeklogies.com.au. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Logies '92 Nominations". TV Week. 7 March 1992. p. 12.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Logies '92 And the winners are...". TV Week. 21 March 1992. p. 16.
  5. ^ Oliver, Robin (14 March 1992). "Finally, Jana gets her gold gong". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 February 2025 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  6. ^ Jurman, Elizabeth (17 March 1992). "Idiot box blues". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 February 2025 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  7. ^ a b c d Luck, Peter (23 March 1992). "5th column". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 February 2025 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
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