Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE (born 23 July 1938), is a retired media personality, who is a Logie Hall of Fame inductee and quadruple Gold Logie award winning entertainer and radio, theatre and television personality/presenter, Newton has hosted the Logie Awards ceremony on numerous occasions through his career.
 He is known for his collaborations with Graham Kennedy and Don Lane.
 He started in radio broadcasting, before becoming a star and fixture of Australian television since its inception in 1956, and is considered both an industry pioneer, icon and one of the longest-serving television performers in the world.
 Newton is known for his association with both the Nine Network and Ten Network, in numerous shows including: "In Melbourne Tonight", "New Faces", "Good Morning Australia", "20 to 1" and "Bert's Family Feud".
 Newton's wife is singer and television personality Patti McGrath Newton.
 Their two children are Australian actor Matthew Newton and television personality Lauren Newton.
The 4th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Saturday 31 March 1962 at the Chevron Hotel in Melbourne.
 The awards presentation was telecast live in a half-hour broadcast on ABV-2, (The ABC's Melbourne station), with delayed transmission on ABC stations in other cities over the following days.
 Gerald Lyons from the ABC was the Master of Ceremonies.
 Game show host Bob Dyer was on hand to present awards.
 This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1962.
 Winning the Gold Logie was a joint honour that year with entertainer Tommy Hanlon Jr and variety host Lorrae Desmond, winning the coveted award, in doing so, Desmond was the first woman on Australian television to win the Gold.
The 11th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 21 March 1969 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network.
 Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies.
 American television actors Dennis Cole, Barbara Anderson, William Shatner, Ty Hardin, British actor Barry Morse and Skippy appeared as guests.
 This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1969.
The 12th Annual "TV Week" Logie Awards were presented on Friday 20 March 1970 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network.
 Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies.
 Miss World 1968 winner Penny Plumber, British television actor Peter Wyngarde and American actors Peter Graves and Robert Young appeared as guests.
 Peggy Lipton, star of the US series "The Mod Squad", was also originally scheduled to appear but cancelled at the last minute due to a severe middle-ear infection.
 This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1970:
The 9th Annual "TV Week" Logie Awards were presented on Monday 10 April 1967 at the Zodiac Room aboard the cruise liner "Fairstar" in Melbourne.
 Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies.
 American television actor Vic Morrow was a guest presenter.
 This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1967:
The 15th Annual "TV Week" Logie Awards were presented on Friday 16 February 1973 at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network.
 Bert Newton was the Master of Ceremonies.
 American film star Glenn Ford and television actors Michael Cole, Gail Fisher and Loretta Swit were in attendance as guest presenters.
 The programme is remembered for a drunken, incoherent acceptance speech from Cole which concluded with a swear word.
The 13th Annual "TV Week" Logie Awards were presented on Friday 26 March 1971 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network.
 Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies.
 American television actors Michael Cole, Peter Haskell, Bob Crane and Karen Jensen appeared as guests.
 This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1970:
The 3rd Annual "TV Week" Logie 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 article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1961:
The Logie Awards (officially the "TV Week" Logie Awards) is an annual institution celebrating Australian television, which have been since 1960, and sponsored and organized by magazine TV Week.
 Coined by entertainer Graham Kennedy after he won the first Star of the Year award in 1959, the name Logie awards honour's British engineer and innovator John Logie Baird, who invented mechanical television as a practical medium.
 Awards are given in many categories, but the most widely publicized award and highest honour is the Gold Logie, which is awarded to the most popular personality on Australian television for the previous calendar year, with the record for most wins going to Kennedy and Ray Martin.
 The event has been strongly associated with showbiz personality Bert Newton, who has hosted the ceremony on the most occasions.
 Like the AFL, the Logies were a Melbourne institution, but in 2017, it was announced that after 30 years, the event will no longer be hosted in the Victorian state, with the proposed new location on the Gold Coast, Queensland, the Government had previously injected 1 million dollars into the event.
The 7th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 26 March 1965 at Palais de Danse, St Kilda in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network .
 Gerald Lyons from the ABC was the Master of Ceremonies .
 American television actress Donna Douglas was a guest presenter.
 This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1965:

Question: What retired media personality served as the Master of Ceremonies of the Logie Awards of 1973?
Answer: Bert Newton