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A Current Affair is a television magazine that ran from 1986 to 1996 before reappearing in 2005. The show was produced by 20th Century Fox (and long based at Fox's New York flagship WNYW) and aired on most Fox Television Stations. 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, and gossip. 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, along with the many talk shows that dominated daytime TV during the 90s. Image File history File links Logo for the television magazine program A Current Affair. ... Image File history File links Logo for the television magazine program A Current Affair. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 20th Century Fox logo Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ... WNYW, FOX5 is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. ... This is an incomplete list of Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates. ... A logotype, commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface and/or font, or arranged in a particular, but legible, way. ... // Geometry See Pyramid (geometry) Geometric shape created by connecting a polygonal base to an apex An n-sided pyramid is a polyhedron formed by connecting an n-sided polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by n triangular faces (n≥3). ... Hard news brings us news, reviews and contest reports from the events that make history. ... This article is about the year. ... Hard Copy was a tabloid news infotainment magazine show similar to Inside Edition and A Current Affair. ... WJLA, Washington, DC Inside Edition promo featuring Bill OReilly, 1993. ...

Maury Povich and WNYW news anchors Maureen O'Boyle and Jim Ryan both served as show hosts during its original run. 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. Maury Povich publicity shot. ... The New York Post is one of the oldest newspapers published in the United States. ... News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) NYSE: NWS is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ...

Initially, the show broadcast as an irreverent, late-night New York City broadcast on WNYW, but as it expanded, the show began to cover stories throughout America that were overlooked or ignored by the then-dominant network news organizations. By 1989, the show's coverage of controversies and scandals caused the show's demographic to change significantly and to challenge the authority of network television news. Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location [[Image:|250px|250px|Location of City of New York, New York]] Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R...

The show's landmark coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was seen as the harbinger for "tabloid" television newsmagazines' dominance of, and leadership in, coverage of serious news stories. Remnant of the Berlin Wall near Potsdamer Platz, June 2003. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The book, Tabloid Baby, written by the show's first managing editor, was said by Povich to be the Bible on the era, and is regarded as the definitive work on the show's history, as well as the rise and fall of the tabloid television genre. Tabloid Baby (Celebrity Books, 1999): The book by television journalist and producer Burt Kearns on the rise of the tabloid television genre and his rollicking experiences as one of its field marshals. ... The Bible (Hebrew תנ״ך tanakh, Greek η Βίβλος [hē biblos] ) (sometimes The Holy Bible, The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βίβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity... A WNYW-TV full screen segment intro from 2005. ...

Waning Popularity

When actor George Clooney launched a public campaign to boycott the show Hard Copy, similar shows started gaining a negative reputation. Around this period, it was announced that the show's anchor Maureen O'Boyle was raped, but this later turned out to be a publicity stunt to boost the waning interest in the show. By the time the first incarnation of A Current Affair ended in 1996, the quality of the show degraded to the point that the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live made regular parodies of stories A Current Affair was reporting. Clooney on the set of Oceans Twelve, Winnetka, Illinois, April 2004 George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, director and screenwriter, known for his former role in the long-running television drama ER (1994–99). ... This is a list of television-related events in 1996. ... For other uses, see NBC (disambiguation). ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ...

ACA Gets New Life in the U.S.

On March 21, 2005 Fox began airing new episodes of A Current Affair after an 8-year hiatus. Former Atlanta Falcons defensive end and lawyer Tim Green hosted the new edition, known as "ACA 2". In resurrecting the show, Fox gave the show a more serious tone by covering more news and crime, rather than entertainment-oriented stories. As with the original incarnation, overt politicizing was left out of the show, unlike its Fox News counterpart. The series aired on all Fox owned and operated stations (O&O's). This resurrection would be short lived, however, as the departure from the Fox organization of Lachlan Murdoch and his replacement by Fox News chief Roger Ailes led to Fox's announcement that Ailes would replace the show with a Geraldo Rivera-hosted program in November 2005, only seven months after ACA 2 premiered. March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... City Atlanta, Georgia Other nicknames Dirty Birds Team colors Black, Red, Silver, and White Head Coach Jim L. Mora Owner Arthur Blank General manager Rich McKay Fight song {{{song}}} Mascot Freddie Falcon Local radio Flagship stations: WZGC (92. ... Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American football. ... Tim Green (b. ... Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ... In the television industry (especially in North America), an owned and operated station (frequently abbreviated as O&O) is a television station that is owned by the network with which it is associated. ... Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born 1971) is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and the former Anna Torv. ... Roger Ailes President of Fox News Roger Eugene Ailes (born May 15, 1940) is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President, of FOX News. ... Geraldo Rivera on the Fox News Channel in 2004. ... Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Al Jazeera bombing memo • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Black sites scandal • Conservative leadership race (UK) • Fuel prices • Irans nuclear program • Jilin chemical plant explosions • Kashmir earthquake • Malawi food crisis • Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal • New Delhi bombings investigation • Niger food crisis • North Indian cyclone...

Suspicions that Ailes pulled the show because the ACA team was competing with, and sometimes besting his cable Fox News Channel, were intensified in October 2005, when, after its cancellation, ACA broadcast an exclusive interview with Natalee Holloway murder suspect Joran van der Sloot, and Rivera revealed to the press that Ailes planned to use the timeslot as a beachhead for the establishment of a Fox News nightly newscast. [1]. Yearbook portrait of Natalee Holloway Natalee Ann Holloway (born October 21, 1986) is a U.S. teenager from Mountain Brook, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, whose disappearance on May 30, 2005 during a post-graduation trip in Aruba caused citizen concern in Aruba along with a media sensation in the... Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot (born August 6, 1987 in Arnhem, Netherlands) is a Dutch college student who lived in Aruba. ...

References

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• (January 13, 2005). A Current Affair to return to television. Associated Press/MSNBC.