Tom Crabtree (journalist)

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Tom Crabtree is the lead news anchor at WSPA-TV 7, the CBS TV station located in the Spartanburg, South Carolina. [1]

He started at the station in 1983 as a reporter. He has been the lead male anchor since the early 1990s and is a former winner of The South Carolina Newsman of the Year Award.

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