Steve Crabtree
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Steven Christopher Crabtree (born June 12, 1955) is an American journalist. He was the Republican nominee for Kentucky Secretary of State in 1995.[citation needed] Crabtree was a drummer and vocalist with a number of bands that performed throughout the Ohio Valley and the northern panhandle of West Virginia during the 1970s.[citation needed] He left Moundsville, West Virginia, in 1977 for Somerset, Kentucky, to be close to family that had already left West Virginia.[citation needed]
After two years working on campaigns for United States congressman Hal Rogers, a Republican from Kentucky's 5th congressional district, Crabtree went to work as a reporter and later news anchor for WKYT-TV in Lexington.[1] Then, in 1982, he married the former Judi Luttrell of Somerset, Kentucky.[citation needed] The couple had three sons; Tyler, Matthew and Cory.[citation needed] In 1985, Kentucky Central Insurance Company, that owned WKYT-TV at the time, signed on WYMT-TV, a CBS affiliate in Hazard, Kentucky, sending Crabtree to the mountains of Eastern Kentucky to be that station's first news anchor and later news director. Crabtree was laid off two years later in a dispute over layoffs.[1]
After being fired from WYMT, Crabtree went cross-state to ABC affiliate WBKO in Bowling Green as news director/anchor, later serving as WBKO's operations manager. He left WBKO for 10 months in 1989 to work at WKYT before returning to Bowling Green.[1]
In 1995, Crabtree was the Republican nominee for Kentucky Secretary of State, defeating his GOP primary opponent by a more than three-to-one margin.[2] Crabtree was defeated in the general election by Democrat John Y. Brown, III, son of fast food magnate and former Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, Jr.[3]
Crabtree later moved his family to Erie, Pennsylvania, where he was news director and anchor for ABC affiliate WJET-TV from 1998 to 2000. He left to become the vice president for news at WVLT-TV, a CBS affiliate in Knoxville, Tennessee.[4] Crabtree resigned from that post in January 2011, with his last day being that April.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gibson, Gail (October 13, 1995). "Novices Brown, Crabtree fight for toehold on change". Lexington Herald-Leader. Lexington, Kentucky. pp. A1, A12. Retrieved November 12, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Ellers, Fran (May 24, 1995). "It's Brown vs. Crabtree; Mills rates 4th among 6". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. pp. B1, B5. Retrieved November 12, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Gibson, Gail (November 8, 1995). "Brown keeps up family tradition". Lexington Herald-Leader. Lexington, Kentucky. p. A3. Retrieved November 12, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "It was all-nighter Wednesday morning". Erie Times-News. November 8, 2000.
- ↑ Morrow, Terry (January 24, 2011). "WVLT takes leap into high-def". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. Knoxville, Tennessee. p. C3. Retrieved November 12, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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