9th ACTRA Awards explained

9th ACTRA Awards
Date:	April 9, 1980
Host:	Dave Broadfoot
Award1 Type:	Best TV Program
Award1 Winner:	Drying Up the Streets
Award2 Type:	Best Radio Program
Award2 Winner:	Sunday Morning "Aftermath of Jonestown"
Network:	CBC Television
Previous:	8th
Main:	ACTRA Awards
Next:	10th

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

Radio

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

Journalism and special awards

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

Notes and References

1. Rick Groen, "Drying Up the Streets cleans up on ACTRAs". The Globe and Mail, April 10, 1980.
2. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110657460/ "ACTRA Award nominations"