A Current Affair (US)

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A Current Affair is a television magazine that ran from 1986 to 1996 before reappearing in 2005. The show is produced by 20th Century Fox and airs on most Fox Television Stations. The logo of the show is a distinctive pyramid with a "zoom-like" sound effect 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. Maury Povich and Maureen O'Boyle both served as show hosts during its original run.

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Television magazine - 1986 - 1996 - 2005 - 20th Century Fox - Fox Television Stations - Logo - Pyramid - Hard news - 1990 - Hard Copy - Inside Edition - Maury Povich - Maureen O'Boyle

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Initially, the show broadcast as an irreverent, late-night New York City broadcast, 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.

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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.

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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.

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Tabloid Baby - Bible - Tabloid television

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