He went on to host the first ever nationally syndicated FM sports cast and became the lead television sports anchor at WDIV-TV in Detroit and WABC-TV in New York. Along the way, Zaret hosted the first locally produced half-hour baseball pre-game show in America. He also hosted the Emmy-winning Eli and Denny Show on WJBK-TV with former 31-game winner Denny McLain. In 1997 he created the LockerRoom show on WDIV with Kirk Gibson and Gary Danielson that ran on both radio (WXYT-AM) and television until 2004.

In 2003, Zaret published his first book, "The Last of the Great Tigers, Untold Stories from an amazing season."

He followed that in 2004 with "Blue Collar Blueprint - How the Pistons Constructed their Championship Formula."

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