Background
Crump, Harold Craft was born on September 28, 1931 in Amory, Mississippi, United States. Son of Harold W. and Eva (Craft) Crump.
Crump, Harold Craft was born on September 28, 1931 in Amory, Mississippi, United States. Son of Harold W. and Eva (Craft) Crump.
Bachelor of Business Administration in Advt, University Mississippi, 1953.
Assistant advertising manager, Blythville (Arkansas) Courier News Journal, 1955-1956;
with, station WTVF and predecessor, Nashville, 1956-1981;
vice-president, director sales, station WTVF and predecessor, 1966-1975;
station manager, station WTVF and predecessor, 1969-1975;
executive vice president, general manager, station WTVF and predecessor, 1975-1981;
executive vice president, general manager, 21st Century Prodns. (producers Hee Haw, Candid Camera and Hee Haw Honeys), Nashville, 1975-1981;
executive vice president and general manager, Station KPRC-television, Houston, 1981-1984;
president broadcast group, H & C Communications, Inc. (KPRC-television, KTUF, KVOA-television, WESH-television KCCI-television, KSAT-television), Houston, 1984-1996;
owner, Chief Executive Officer, Station WCSC-television, Charleston, South Carolina., 1987-1991;
president, general manager, Station KSTP-television, St. Paul, 1990-1997;
vice president corporation affairs, Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc., since 1997.
Member government relations committee Columbia Broadcasting System-television, 1980-1981, affiliate board NBC, 1983-1986. Board directors Broadcast Music, Inc.
Board directors Nashville Junior Achievement, 1965-1971, Junior Pro Football League, 1967-1969, Nashville Drug Treatment Center, 1977, Nashville Salvation Army, 1978-1980. Vice chairman Nashville Better Business Bureau, 1974, chairman advisory review committee, 1967. Television chairman finance campaign United Givers Fund, 1963.
Executive committee Nashville chapter Muscular Dystrophy Association, 1972-1979, national board directors, since 1986. Now member corporation national organization trustee Nashville Memorial Hospital, 1979-1981. Served to 1st lieutenant United States Air Force, 1953-1955.
Member Sales and Marketing Executives Club Nashville (past director), Tennessee Association Broadcasters (past president), National Association Broadcasters, National Association television Program Executives, Alpha Delta Sigma, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Clubs: St. Paul Town and Country.
Married Margaret Leigh Glenn, June 28, 1980. Children by previous marriage: Harold T., William L., Laurie M. Crump Porter. 1 stepchild, William A. Gilmer.