David Crabtree was previously at WRAL-TV as Anchor/Reporter at the station prior to managing PBS North Carolina.
David Crabtree, award-winning broadcast journalist at WRAL Raleigh, N.C., has been named interim chief executive officer of PBS North Carolina.
The appointment was announced Tuesday by University of North Carolina System President Peter Hans. PBS North Carolina, the statewide public media network, is an affiliate organization of the University of North Carolina System.
Crabtree is an anchor and reporter with more than 30 years in the television news industry. He has received numerous awards since joining WRAL in 1994, including Reporter of the Year four times from the Radio Television News Directors Association, Anchor of the Year from the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, and 16 Emmy Awards. In 2007, Crabtree co-anchored a documentary that won the duPont-Columbia Award for outstanding reporting in the public interest.