title: 9th ACTRA Awards
text: # 9th ACTRA Awards
  
  The 9th ACTRA Awards were presented on April 9, 1980. The ceremony was hosted by Dave Broadfoot.
  
  ## Television
  
  | Best Television Program | Earle Grey Award |
  | - | - |
  | Drying Up the Streets Dieppe 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 |
  