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Cheryl Fair
President and General Manager
ABC7 / KABC-TV Los Angeles
Cheryl Fair
President and General Manager
ABC7 / KABC-TV Los Angeles

Cheryl Kunin Fair is the president and general manager of KABC-TV, the ABC-owned local television station in Los Angeles.

Fair joined the station in 1994 to lead the local Eyewitness News operation. As vice president and news director for more than 20 years, she helped Eyewitness News become the No. 1 news operation in Southern California. Under her leadership, Eyewitness News set the standard for excellence in news coverage on broadcast and digital as well as reinforcing a strong tradition of commitment to the community. She was promoted to her current position in 2015.

During her tenure, the station has achieved many milestones in technology and news coverage, including the first HD newscast, the first HD news helicopter, and the first station to have Skymap aerial helicopter mapping technology. KABC is also the market leader in digital and social media and continues to have the largest Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube following of any local station in Los Angeles. The station has also created a team of Community Journalists assigned to both live in and cover underserved sections of the Southern California community.

A Philadelphia native, Fair is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and holds a bachelor’s degree in speech/communications. She is a member of the board of directors for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as well as on the board of trustees for the CHLA Foundation.