David Crabtree Biography
David Crabtree is an award-winning journalist, former television news anchor, and television executive from the United States. Crabtree began his television career as a reporter for WKRN-TV in Nashville. He later worked at KCNC-TV, KMGH-TV, and WITN-TV in Denver, Colorado, as well as WITN-TV in Washington, North Carolina.
David Crabtree Age
He was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States of America.
David Crabtree Education
He earned a bachelor’s degree in science from Middle Tennessee State University. He later studied divinity at Vanderbilt University and earned a master’s degree in theology from the Graduate Theological Foundation before enrolling in the Divinity School at Duke University. Crabtree is a divorcee with two daughters.
David Crabtree Wife
Crabtree was married but is currently divorced and has two daughters.
David Crabtree Career
Crabtree began his career as a musician, playing drums professionally with Nashville bands and doing session work for radio jingles, which led to a position as a radio disc jockey. He left radio to become the Tennessee House of Representatives’ press secretary. Crabtree began his television career as a reporter for WKRN-TV in Nashville. He later worked at KCNC-TV, KMGH-TV, and WITN-TV in Denver, Colorado, as well as WITN-TV in Washington, North Carolina. In 1994, he joined WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, as a news anchor. Crabtree announced his retirement from WRAL in 2018 and was set to retire at the end of that year, but in November 2018, he announced that he would postpone his retirement and continue working at WRAL.
Crabtree’s final broadcast will be on May 25, 2022. Crabtree was named interim Chief Executive Officer of PBS North Carolina in April 2022. Crabtree was named permanent CEO of PBS North Carolina by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors in September 2022. On the same day that he retired from WRAL, Governor Roy Cooper inducted Crabtree into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. The mayor of Raleigh declared the day “David Crabtree Day.” In April 2023, he was inducted into the North Carolina Media Journalism Hall of Fame.
In 2004, Crabtree was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church. From 2004 to 2018, he worked as an assisting minister at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Raleigh. After allegations of inappropriate behavior were made against him in October 2018, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina permanently suspended Crabtree from ministry. Crabtree issued a personal statement explaining his dismissal from the ministry, claiming that he had a consensual relationship with a woman that violated church protocol.
David Crabtree Awards
Crabtree has 16 Emmy Awards and was named North Carolina Journalist of the Year by the Radio-Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas four years in a row. He was named North Carolina Association of Broadcasters Anchor of the Year in 2014. In 2007, he received the Gabriel Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for his documentary on migrant workers’ living conditions in North Carolina. He received a Midsouth Emmy award for his coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and he was also nominated for a Midsouth Emmy in 2011 for his coverage of Elizabeth Edwards’ funeral.
David Crabtree Net Worth
David has an estimated net worth of 20 million dollars.