Logie ban on Twitter
No mobile phones in the room at the Logies this year please...
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Sorry Wil Anderson….
This year’s Logie Awards is banning Twitter from the room.
Invitations to the ceremony at Crown carry, in very small print, the words: ”Please note, mobiles will not be permitted. Your co-operation is appreciated.”
Phones were also used last year to leak the winners ahead of their broadcast on Nine. Traditionally the show is some 30-40 minutes ahead of the broadcast vision. That led to Dannii Minogue congratulating winners from London via Twitter before it had even been seen by viewers in Australia. Ooops.
”It is because of the tweeting,” a source told The Age. ”I think we saw the tweeting in the past as being a bit mean-spirited and felt it detracted from the evening.”
But unlike movie previews there will be no cloaking of phones in the foyer.
‘We’re simply asking the industry to support the show, enjoy the night and respect the Logies and everyone else in the room,” said the source.
Logies shouldn’t be immune to cheeky mocking from celebs who potentially bring the brand to an audience who may not otherwise give it any attention, but the leaking of winners before the broadcast is admittedly a bit of a problem.
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17 Responses
Why are there never any problems with tweets during the Oscars or the Emmys? Maybe they have a “no phones” policy, too.
Isn’t funny that the people who care the most about the ban are the people who care the least about the Logies.
Maybe if the show didn’t suck so badly we wouldn’t have this problem in the first place.
This is why the Logies should be Live for F***S sake. Sorry for swearing but this is ridiculous. Oh wait the awards are ridiculous with all the weirdness about them this year.
As for Nine itself they are becoming the biggest joke in Australian TV.
what about an iPad?
Nine and TV Week need to drag themselves into the 21st century and embrace social media rather than trying to ban it
Go live or face the consequences. Good luck omitting mobiles, it will only encourage more people to defy them and smuggle them in
Please Wil Anderson– stay at home and watch the logies on tv with the rest of us. That way your tweets can amuse me while my girlfriend makes me sit through the garbage.
Anthony and Kris are right – the solution? Go live.
Gee, 9 used to be the home of Live, the Logies used to be transmitted live, now everything is delayed!
Channel 9 seriously need to get their act together, they’re really taking a turn for the worst and are becoming the “home of repeats”.
Wil Anderson shouldn’t even be invited after his offensive tweets in the past. I use to like him, but have since discovered that although he can be funny, he has a really bad attitude and a giant chip on his shoulder.
I will tell you right now this will not work. As if they will leave there phones at home. Will Anderson wont know what to do.
Good luck trying to stamp this out.
Since I won’t be watching there goes any interest I’ll have in the ceremony whatsoever.
Lucky there isn’t a Logie ban on twits … could be a quiet night otherwise.
Well if the Logies were Live, then we wouldn’t have this problem would we?!?!
Well there goes the entertainment value !
Yeah this is going to work…