Lorianne Crook
{{Short description|American radio and television host, producer and writer}}
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| name = Lorianne Crook
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| caption = Crook in 2006
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|2|19}}
| birth_place = Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
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| education = McGavock High School
| occupation = Radio and television personality
| years_active = 1986–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Jim Owens|1985|March 4, 2022|reason=died}}
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Lorianne Crook (born February 19, 1957) is an American radio and television host, producer, and writer, best known for her work on The Nashville Network programs This Week In Country Music and Crook & Chase with Charlie Chase.
Early life
Crook was born in Wichita, Kansas but grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a graduate of McGavock High School in Nashville where she was a cheerleader.{{cn|date=April 2019}} She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chinese and Russian languages.{{Cite web |url=http://www.crookandchase.com/pages/lorianne.html |title=About Lorianne |access-date=2011-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213021911/http://www.crookandchase.com/pages/lorianne.html |archive-date=2010-12-13 |url-status=dead }}
Career
An award-winning TV personality, Crook occasionally hosts Offstage with Lorianne Crook, a series of in-depth conversations with major country music artists for Great American Country (GAC). Subjects have included Kenny Chesney, Trace Adkins, Phil Vassar, Cowboy Troy, and Lonestar. For a brief time, she was co-host of Candid Camera. Before her big break as a TV personality, she worked at KAUZ-TV, the CBS affiliate in Wichita Falls, Texas/Lawton, Oklahoma in the 1980s.
Personal life
Crook married television producer Jim Owens in 1985.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120917050844/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-08-09/features/9003060853_1_country-girl-country-music-lorianne-crook/2 A Country Girl, Wired August 9, 1990] Owens was the creator of Crook & Chase and through its success, he secured an exclusive contract with TNN to produce its country music and entertainment programming until the network shifted away from the format in 2000. Owens's company Jim Owens Entertainment purchased the rights to the TNN brand and the content he had produced for it in 2012.{{cite news|title=Crook and Chase Stars Join Luken Communications at NAB to Announce the Return of The Nashville Network|url=https://news.yahoo.com/crook-chase-stars-join-luken-communications-nab-announce-170020752.html|access-date=April 16, 2012|newspaper=Yahoo News|date=April 16, 2012}}{{cite news|last=Reynolds|first=Mike|title=NAB: The Nashville Network Eyes New Verses as Digital Broadcast Network|url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/483196-NAB_The_Nashville_Network_Eyes_New_Verses_as_Digital_Broadcast_Network.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420064300/http://www.multichannel.com/article/483196-NAB_The_Nashville_Network_Eyes_New_Verses_as_Digital_Broadcast_Network.php |archive-date=2012-04-20 |access-date=2021-01-30 |url-status=dead }} Crook and Owens were married until his death March 4, 2022.[https://musicrow.com/2022/03/breaking-country-musics-visionary-tv-producer-jim-owens-dies/ Jim Owens Dies, Music Row March 4, 2022]
External links
- {{IMDb name|0188870}}
- [https://archive.today/20130125034148/http://www.gactv.com/gac/shows_off/ Offstage With Lorianne Crook]
- [http://www.gactv.com/gac/about_us/article/0,3018,GAC_26085_4727923,00.html GAC Biography]
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Category:Mass media people from Nashville, Tennessee
Category:American radio personalities
Category:American television personalities
Category:American women television personalities
Category:Vanderbilt University alumni
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