Tracey Crawford ( 1970) is a former British television continuity announcer and radio presenter. Crawford, originally from

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, began her career at

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in 1989 as a producer of programming, promotions and commercials. While at Northsound, she joined

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(now ''STV North'') in 1990 as a staff announcer and ''Grampian Headlines'' newsreader. At the time of her appointment, she was the youngest on-air announcer on British television, at the age of 19.The TV Room Plus - Grampian TV presenters' profiles
Crawford soon became a co-presenter of Northsound's breakfast show, alongside Grampian announcing colleague

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. She continued in this role for four years. Crawford left Grampian in 1995 to join

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in Manchester as an announcer and trail voiceover. When presentation and transmission was moved from Manchester to Yorkshire Television in Leeds, she was one of two Granada announcers (alongside

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) to make the move and in 1998, became the Head of Presentation for the Granada Media Group's ITV stations in Northern England and Southern Scotland -

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, Tyne Tees and

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. As well as managing other departments including continuity, trails & promos, weather and graphics, she continued to announce on occasions for the four stations. Crawford left Leeds in October 2002 when the Leeds presentation department was scaled back to become a playout centre and soon became a presentation manager in London for the then-new ITV network continuity service, covering ITV regions in England and Southern Scotland, and later, Wales. She was also a business manager for

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's Broadcast Business Development team before leaving ITV in 2007. In 2008, Crawford became a partner of a company of entrepreneurs and consultants in creative business.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crawford, Tracey Radio and television announcers Year of birth uncertain 1970s births Living people