| 34th Logie Awards | |
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| Date | 13 March 1992 |
| Site | Radisson President Hotel,Melbourne, Victoria |
| Hosted by | Steve Vizard |
| Highlights | |
| Gold Logie | Jana Wendt |
| Hall of Fame | Four Corners |
| Most awards | Brides of Christ (5) |
| Most nominations | E Street (5) |
| Television coverage | |
| Network | Seven Network |
The34th AnnualTV WeekLogie Awards were presented on 13 March 1992, in a ceremony hosted bySteve Vizard at the Radisson President Hotel inMelbourne. The ceremony was broadcast on theSeven Network.[1] Guests includedJohn Stamos,Dennis Waterman,Bob Hawke andCampbell McComas.[2] MiniseriesBrides of Christ received the most awards (5), including both Most Popular and Most Outstanding Telemovie or Miniseries. Soap operaE Street received two wins from five nominations, while sketch comedy showFast Forward won three awards from four nominations.Jana Wendt won theGold Logie forA Current Affair andFour Corners was inducted into theHall of Fame.
The nominations were published in the 7 March 1992 issue ofTV Week.[3] Winners are listed first and highlighted inbold.[4][5]
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Most Popular Actor in a Telemovie or Miniseries
| Most Popular Actress in a Telemovie or Miniseries
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Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Male Personality
| Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Female Personality
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| Most Popular Telemovie or Miniseries
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| Most Popular Public Affairs Program
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Most Popular Children's Program
| Most Popular Music Video
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| Most Outstanding Telemovie or Miniseries
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Most Outstanding Achievement in News
| Most Outstanding Achievement by a Regional Station
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| Most Outstanding Single Documentary or Documentary Series
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New South Wales[edit]
Queensland[edit]
South Australia[edit]
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Victoria[edit]
Western Australia[edit]
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After 40 years on Australian television,Four Corners became the ninth inductee into theTV Week LogieLogie Hall of Fame.[4]
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.
The ceremony ended in controversy whenA 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 ofA Current Affair for an extended period to be able to cover any late breaking stories for time zones that would normally getACA 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 aTV 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 ofACA's production schedule ifTV 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 afterACA 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]
Writing forThe 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 andFour Corners as deserving of their accolades.[7]
