Logie Award for Most Outstanding Sports Coverage

The Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Sports Coverage is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. The award is given to recognise outstanding coverage of sports.[1]

Logie Award for Most Outstanding Sports Coverage
CountryAustralia
Presented byTV Week
First awarded1970
Websitewww.nowtolove.com.au/tv-week-logies

The first award for sports coverage was awarded at the 19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1977 as Best Sporting Documentary.[2] In 1978, the award became Outstanding Coverage Of A Sporting Event.[3] From 1981 it became Best Sports Coverage and in 1985 Best Coverage of Sport.

Logie Awards chosen by the public began in 1998,[4][5] which included the Most Popular Sports Program until 2017.[3]

SBS TV's The World Game won at least three Logies for coverage of the FIFA World Cup[6][7] Les Murray and Craig Foster collected the TV Week Logie Award for Outstanding Sports Coverage in 2015, for their coverage on SBS TV's The World Game of the 2014 World Cup.[8]

References
  1. "Full list of nominations for the 55th Annual TV Week Logie Awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014.
  2. "1974–1977 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  3. "1978–1981 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  4. "Australian Television: 1994-1997 Logie Awards". Australian Television Information Archive. 30 October 1998. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  5. "Australian Television: 1998 Logie Awards". Australian Television Information Archive. 30 October 1998. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  6. Law, Benjamin (16 October 2020). "Benjamin Law's Dicey Topics with former Socceroos captain and now human rights activist Craig Foster". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  7. "All in this together? putting people at the heart of decision making the case for human rights in a new social bargain". UniSA. UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  8. "Les and Fozz at the Logies" (Video). Facebook. 3 May 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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