A Current Affair (U.S. TV series)
| A Current Affair | |
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A Current Affair logo.
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| Genre | Television news magazine |
| Presented by |
Maury Povich (1986–1990) Maureen O'Boyle (1990–1994) Penny Daniels (1994–1995) Jon Scott (1995–1996) Tim Green (2005) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | Peter Brennan |
| Editor(s) | Burt Kearns |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | 20th Century Fox Television |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndication |
| Original release | July 28, 1986 – 1996 March 21, 2005 – October 28, 2005 |
A Current Affair is an American television newsmagazine that aired in syndication from July 1986 to 1996 before reappearing briefly in March 2005. The show was produced by 20th Century Fox, and long based at Fox's New York flagship WNYW.
Maury Povich and WNYW news anchors Maureen O'Boyle and Jim Ryan both served as show hosts during its original run. Its creator and producer was Peter Brennan. One of its lead personalities was Steve Dunleavy, a columnist for the New York Post, which like WNYW and Fox Television is part of the News Corporation empire.
Initially, the show was broadcast as an irreverent, late-night New York City broadcast on WNYW, but as it expanded, and under the direction of Brennan and producers Burt Kearns and Wayne Darwen, the show began to cover stories throughout America that were overlooked or ignored by the then-dominant network news organizations.
The logo of the show is a distinctive pyramid with a "zoom-like" sound effect (immortalized as the "ka-chung") for a theme. While showing some hard news stories, the focus of the show is often entertainment, scandals, gossip and exploitative tabloid journalism. It was popular during the 1990s when magazine-type news shows were common during daytime television. Its main competitors were Hard Copy and Inside Edition (the latter of which remains on the air today), along with the many talk shows that dominated daytime TV during the 1990s.
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