Crawford, originally from Largs in North Ayrshire, began her career at Northsound Radio in 1989 as a producer of programming, promotions and commercials.
At the time of her appointment, she was the youngest on-air announcer on British television, at the age of 19.
[1] Crawford soon became a co-presenter of Northsound's breakfast show, alongside Grampian announcing colleague Robin Galloway.
Crawford left Grampian in 1995 to join Granada Television in Manchester as an announcer and trail voiceover.
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.