Today show host Karl Stefanovic has won the coveted Gold Logie in a late voting surge, beating early odds on favourite Rebecca Gibney.
Stefanovic seemed to be just as surprised by the win as everyone else, saying he did not expect to beat the ABC's Adam Hills, Ten's Chrissie Swan and Asher Keddie and Seven's Jessica Marais and Gibney.
"I legitimately did not ever expect to win this award, ever," he said.
He attributed the win to his breakfast television show covering a number of big international stories this year, including the Queensland floods and the Christchurch and Japan earthquakes.
"There's been pretty big news this year so maybe that's why it's happened," he told reporters backstage after his win.
While Seven may be consistently winning the ratings, Nine won the most Logies at this year's ceremony taking out three outstanding and four popular awards.
Vetern political reporter Laurie Oakes, meanwhile, has won many awards for journalism and is just as thrilled to be inducted into the Logie Awards Hall of Fame.
The Nine Network man told the crowd in Melbourne that he's in television and this is the highest accolade you can get in that industry so I'm really chuffed."
After joking about old shots of him with hair, Oakes borrowed from former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather's comment that journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine.
If the awards are anything to go by Australia's television landscape seems to be changing with wins more evenly spread across the networks and new programs and their stars taking home Logies.
But it was also the first year that the Logies have been solely voted online which may have affected the outcome.
The silver Logie for most popular actor went to Hugh Sheridan from Seven's popular Packed to the Rafters, which is now in its fourth season.
But the silver Logie for most popular actress went to Asher Keddie for her work in Ten's Offspring after just its first series.
"You've no idea how happy I am that I'm the most loved," Keddie said.
"The most popular, that's so cool.
"I don't care if I'm good or not."
Both the outstanding actor and actress awards went to the ABC.
Richard Roxburgh took home the most outstanding Logie for his portrayal of an eccentric lawyer in Rake and Claire van der Boom won the most outstanding actress award for the miniseries Sisters
of War.
Seven, Ten and the ABC each won five Logies, but they were distributed differently amongst the popular and outstanding categories.
Ten proved to be popular with viewers winning five of the 12 publicly voted awards but none of the peer voted outstanding awards.
In contrast the ABC won five of the ten peer voted outstanding awards but none of the viewer voted popularity awards.
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