The 3rd Annual TV WeekLogie Awards were presented on Saturday 18 March 1961 at Chevron-Hilton Hotel in Sydney. Jimmy Edwards from the BBC series Whack-O! was the Master of Ceremonies. The Awards presentation was televised in a half-hour live broadcast on ABN-2, Sydney, with delayed broadcast on ABC stations in other capital cities during the following week.
This was the first year that the awards were known as the Logie Awards, after having been coined by Star of the Year recipient Graham Kennedy the previous year, to honour the Scottish engineer and innovator who contributed to the development of television as a practical medium, John Logie Baird.[1] This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australiantelevision) for 1961: