ABC News reported that this was the ABC’s most successful Logie Awards ever, with 11 wins out of 23 categories.
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Would be good to see a complete overhaul of the voting process for next year. This Sam snub is outrageous.
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The more articles out there regarding the voting changes and ommissions of some personalities, the better.
Bring back to the way it was for 60 odd years re voting. Public v outstanding.
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25 years in the business?
Sam Pang being omitted is less a failure of the voting process than a failure of the way network nominations work.
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Gold nominees have to agree to the nomination. Ten and Seven would be crazy if they didn’t put him forward, so i would think Sam doesn’t want to be up for the gong. He rarely does publicity, so I doubt he would want to do a publicity campaign.
Neither probably want to, though, as it would draw attention to his appearances on the other network.
Which is why they should go back to having the viewers decide the nominations, not the networks and their publicity boffins.
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Which network would “claim” a win of the Gold Logie if Sam did win? All of them?
exactly, they’ll turn on each other.
Reminds me of a Logies story i read about many many years ago. I don’t remember it exactly so it may not be an 100% accurate version of events, but in 1977, The Mike Walsh Show won the Logie for Most Popular Show in NSW or something. It was technically for the show’s performance in 1976, when it was produced at Channel 10, but in 1977 the show had jumped across to Nine. Story goes that general manager from Channel 10 was racing to the stage to accept the award, and someone from Nine was doing same. But Mike Walsh beat them both to the stage and claimed the award.
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Started at 10am UK time. I watched parts of it live in from where i am in Europe, and it was definitely not middle of the night.
Which is exactly why both networks are refusing to back him.
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Not unlike Gogglebox used to be with Foxtel and 10 able to claim 1/2 a Logie each 
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Just like those seagulls from “Finding Nemo”… Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine. 
Networks are happy to claim half a logie for the lesser awards. Like Gohglebox with 10 and Foxtel. I think one or two childrens programs were nominated in recent years - with two channels claiming half a nomination each.
But the big awards? We know how precious they are these days. Haha
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It’s simple - remove the network’s ability to promote their talent and let the nominees stand on their own merits.
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Yes – agree. What advantage do the networks get by doing this? Winning more Logies?
So they can promote/advertise it for the next fortnight as a Logie winnig show.
Give the nominations back to the people and let us decide.
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I slept in