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
ACTRA Awards

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.