 In 1975 Elliott was voted "The Most Popular Radio Personality" in NSW by "TV Week" and awarded a Logie.On 14 and 15 January 1974 he "pretended" to cut the electric locks on the 2UW studio doors and locked himself in the studio for 24 hours, while the other presenters adjourned to the local "City Hotel".Thousands of people filed through the studios to see him and people all over Sydney turned off their Television sets and "watched" the radio.