15 Facts About Christine Craft

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Christine Ann Craft was born on December 18,1944 and is an American attorney, radio talk show host and former television news anchor.

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Christine Craft's parents were Willard A Craft, a high school administrator and Christine A Leininger, an actress.

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In 1974, Christine Craft took a position as a weather reporter at KSBW-TV in Salinas, California.

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Christine Craft then moved from KSBW to the CBS affiliate, KPIX-TV, in San Francisco where she continued working as an "all around" reporter.

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In 1977, CBS hired Christine Craft to do the weekly segment, "Women in Sports", for the CBS Sports Spectacular.

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Christine Craft continued with KEYT for several years before moving to Kansas City to work for the then-Metromedia-owned ABC affiliate, KMBC-TV.

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In January 1981 Christine Craft became co-anchor with Scott Feldman on the 6 pm and 10 pm newscast on KMBC-TV.

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Christine Craft refused to accept the demotion, and went public with her disagreement with the station through an interview in a local newspaper.

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Christine Craft left KMBC and returned to doing television in Santa Barbara.

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Christine Craft filed a Title VII lawsuit against Metromedia, and in 1983, a federal jury in Kansas City awarded her $500,000 in damages.

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Christine Craft continued doing television, anchoring the news at KRBK in Sacramento where she was managing editor and went on to do television programs for San Francisco's KQED.

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Christine Craft then went to law school, graduating in 1995 from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law, passing the California Bar exam that same year.

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Currently, Christine Craft is a fill-in talk radio host at KGO in San Francisco and practices worker's compensation and employment law at the law offices of Farrell, Fraulob and Brown in Sacramento.

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Christine Craft has lectured at colleges, universities and law schools about Title VII litigation and her media experiences.

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Christine Craft's story was featured in an exhibit at the Newseum, an interactive museum of news and journalism located in Washington, DC.