9th ACTRA Awards

9th ACTRA Awards
Date	April 9, 1980
Hosted by	Dave Broadfoot
Highlights
Best TV Program	Drying Up the Streets
Best Radio Program	Sunday Morning : "Aftermath of Jonestown"
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBC Television
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The 9th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 9, 1980. ^[1] The ceremony was hosted by Dave Broadfoot.

Television

Best Television Program	Earle Grey Award
Drying Up the Streets [1] Dieppe [2] The Music of Man [2]	Don Francks, Drying Up the Streets [1] Brent Carver, Crossbar [2] Bruno Gerussi, The Newcomers [2]
Best Supporting Performer	Best New Performer
Paul Harding, A Man Called Intrepid Gerard Parkes, A Gift to Last [2] Christopher Plummer, Riel [2]	Sarah Torgov, Drying Up the Streets [1] Megan Follows, Matt and Jenny [2] Liliane Stilwell, Piaf [2]
Best TV Variety Performance	Best Television Host or Interviewer
Burton Cummings, Burton Cummings: Portage and Main [1] Salome Bey, Dream Weaver [2] Toller Cranston, Dream Weaver [2] Karen Kain, Karen Kain Requests the Pleasure [2]	Brian Linehan, City Lights [1] Larry Stout, Newsmagazine [2] Patrick Watson, The Watson Report [2]
Best Children's Television Program	Best Writing, Television Drama
Intergalactic Thanksgiving [1] Matt and Jenny [2] The Stowaway [2]	Ralph L. Thomas and Roy MacGregor, Every Person Is Guilty [1] Roy Moore, Riel [2] Gordon Pinsent, A Gift to Last [2]
Best Writing, Television Comedy/Variety	Best Writing, Television Public Affairs
Johnny Wayne, Frank Shuster, Kate Lonsdale and Ted Lonsdale, Wayne and Shuster [1] John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis and Dave Thomas, Second City Television [2] Stan Jacobson, Rick Moranis and Paul Perlove, Burton Cummings: Portage and Main [2]	Barbara Young, Newsday: "Penny Kitchen" [1] Yehudi Menuhin and Charles Weir, The Music of Man: "Parting of the Ways" [2] Dini Petty, Incest: Scandal in the Family [2]

Radio

Best Radio Program	Best Radio Host or Interviewer
Sunday Morning : "Aftermath of Jonestown" [1] Ideas : "Search for Tutankhamun" [2] The Pat Lowther Poem [2]	Barbara Frum and Alan Maitland, As It Happens [1] Lynne Gordon, Israel [2] Don Harron, Morningside [2]
Best Radio Actor	Best Writing, Radio Drama
Kate Reid, Grasshopper Hill [1] Douglas Rain, Coming Through Slaughter [2] Henry Ramer, Grasshopper Hill [2]	Betty Lambert, Grasshopper Hill [1] Silver Donald Cameron, The Sisters [2] Sheldon Rosen, Ned and Jack [2]
Best Writing, Radio Public Affairs
Terence McKenna, Sunday Morning : "Aftermath of Jonestown" [1] Tom Keenan and Mary McGuire, Alberta Towns [2] Stuart McLean, Sunday Morning : "The Marijuana Run" [2]

Journalism and special awards

Gordon Sinclair Award	Foster Hewitt Award
Ricki Katz [1] Susan Millican [1] Don Anderson [2] Morton Shulman [2] Gerry Sperling [2]	Dave Hodge [1] Don Chevrier [2] Bob Cole [2]
John Drainie Award
Norman Campbell [1]

References

1. Rick Groen, "Drying Up the Streets cleans up on ACTRAs". The Globe and Mail , April 10, 1980.
2. "ACTRA Award nominations". Vancouver Sun , March 28, 1980.