KABC President/GM Cheryl Fair Announces Retirement After 50 Years With ABC Stations
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Cheryl Fair, the president and general manager of ABC-owned KABC Los Angeles, is departing ABC’s owned TV stations group after 50 years with the company.
Fair, who has spent the last 30 years at KABC and before that, 20 years at WPVI Philadelphia, revealed the news to staff on Tuesday.
Attending the meeting to share the news were Debra OConnell, president of Disney Entertainment TV’s networks and TV business operations, and Chad Matthews, the president of ABC Owned Television Stations.
Fair told her team that she will be retiring at the end of March, marking the anniversary of first joining ABC stations five decades ago. “The most difficult part of making this decision is leaving all of you, my KABC family – and we really are a family,” she wrote. “I have had the distinct honor to work with all of you through some of the best and worst times in our lives.
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