Cap Cities Exec Named General Manager of KABC-TV

Capital Cities/ABC on Thursday named the head of its Philadelphia station to take over as president and general manager of KABC-TV Channel 7 in Los Angeles.

G. Alan Nesbitt, a 26-year Capital Cities veteran, moves into the job vacated by Terry Crofoot, who resigned unexpectedly in September after reportedly clashing with Capital Cities/ABC executives. Crofoot last week took a job as vice president of news for Fox TV Stations, which owns KTTV Channel 11.

Nesbitt, 52, has been president and general manager of WPVI-TV in Philadelphia since January, 1990. Before that, he was president and general manager of WTVD, the Capital Cities/ABC-owned station in Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

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