After leaving the news portion of his career, he joined the NBA Detroit Pistons broadcast team in 2005 as a sideline reporter[1] and video creator.
WRIF quickly shot to #1 in the ratings as the combination of availability in cars and that album-oriented rock became the favored choice of the baby boomer generation.
While continuing as an FM sportscaster, Zaret parlayed that success to television, hired by local NBC affiliate WDIV-TV in November 1980 as a weekend sports anchor and reporter.
WDIV held the broadcast rights for the Detroit Tigers, and in 1982 Zaret hosted the first local half-hour baseball pregame show in America, "Tigers'82."
After a 1-year stint at all sports WDFN-AM, he created "The Lockeroom" in 1997 with former Tigers and Dodgers baseball star Kirk Gibson and college football analyst and former NFL quarterback Gary Danielson.
Zaret was born in Nutley, New Jersey[2] and also lived in Huntington, New York and Springfield, Massachusetts where he graduated from High School in 1968.