To be eligible to receive a Logie, a program must be Australian produced, set in Australia and have a predominantly Australian cast. Although in other years there has been a Logie for overseas programs, these awards are no longer part of the awards. People eligible for a Logie must have appeared on an Australian-produced show that was broadcast on Australian television in the previous year. There are long-held suspicions that network publicists engage in mass voting to rig the results. However, no hard evidence had emerged for this, other than the experiment by the satirical newspaper
The Chaser, who attempted to have low-profile
SBS newsreader
Anton Enus nominated for 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 (they came "reasonably close", to earning a nomination for Enus, according to a "
TV Week Insider"), their failure gives some cause for the widespread derision in the industry (particularly the 'quality' end) towards the popular-vote awards. Community television,
Channel 31, personalities and shows are eligible for nomination for Logies, however since their audiences are far smaller than those of the commercial channels and public broadcasters, they are at a tremendous disadvantage. For a time they had their own community television awards, known as the
Antenna Awards. Despite this, in 2009 the Logies were dogged by minor controversy after organisers refused to allow an acclaimed community television show,
The Bazura Project, to be nominated in the category of Outstanding Comedy Show, stating "As
TV Week does not cover community television within the magazine, we are unable to consider individual programs on this platform." The ABC's
Media Watch program first reported the story on Monday 9 March 2009, with many media outlets covering the growing support for the community television program since. ==Logies ceremonies by year==