WDBJ news director Kelly Zuber is retiring from the station.
Zuber told the Roanoke Times recent ownership changes made it a good time to move into the family business. She and her husband own a dental lab in Salem, Va. “I won’t have to do the payroll at midnight anymore,” she said.
She started in broadcasting at the age of 15 at AM station WYVE in Wytheville, Va. She started working at WDBJ in 1982. She’s worked as a reporter, producer, assignment editor and director of digital media at the station before being named news director in 2013.salem
“You have to tip your hat to her,” said GM Matt Pumo. “She is obviously the fabric of what this place is. She cares deeply about this station.”
Zuber was news director the morning Alison Parker and Adam Ward were murdered live on-air during the station’s morning show.
Gray announced it was buying WDBJ last September.