9th ACTRA Awards

The 9th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 9, 1980.^[1] The ceremony was hosted by Dave Broadfoot.

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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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]