A former award-winning Cincinnati TV news anchor and a retired marketing and sales executive who likes to laugh have been appointed to the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting’s board of directors.
Clyde Gray of Symmes Township, who retired as WCPO (Ch. 9) news anchor in 2014, and Joe Gruber of West Chester, who also retired in 2014 from Intel Corporation, have joined the policy-making museum board.
“These two men will be a great asset to our board because of their creativity and passion,” said Ken Rieser, president of the VOA museum board of directors.
Gray had a 37-year career as a television news journalist, beginning his career at WXII in Winston-Salem, N.C., his hometown. He worked at WLWT (Ch. 5) in Cincinnati from 1979 through the 1980s, leaving Cincinnati for a stint from 1983-85 as a reporter at WBAL-TV in Baltimore.
He moved to WCPO (Ch. 9) in 1991, where he anchored the evening news and worked with its investigative reporting unit, the I-Team, and retired from WCPO in 2014.
Gray won a share of the prestigious DuPont Award, plus regional Emmy awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast nationally.
He has served on the board of the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts of America and on the board of trustees of the Scripps Howard Foundation.
Since retiring from broadcasting in August, 2014, Gray has devoted his time to running the consultancy he founded, Blackboard Marketing. He lives in Symmes Township with his wife and the youngest of his three children.
“As a journalist, I was attracted to the VOA museum because of the VOA’s history as an accurate, effective news organization,” said Gray. “As a history buff, I think we’ll be able to tell some great stories and spark an interest in our younger generation about the importance of accurate, unbiased reporting and press freedom.”
Gruber started with Intel in 1980 and said he had the honor to work with Andy Grove, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce to build Intel into the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer.
During his 34-year career, Gruber presented at hundreds of domestic and international technical events and was instrumental in driving the Intel Inside brand to market dominance.
He developed a broad expertise covering product and service development, strategic partnerships and marketing and sales strategy and management.
Gruber holds an engineering degree from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Xavier University. He holds two patents and is also a General Class amateur radio operator.
Gruber is now involved with several internet start-up businesses and is a managing partner at Laugh Publishing, LLC, which produces and manages media and advertising content for web properties with a focus on comedic entertainment.
Gruber and his wife Diane have three children and have lived in West Chester since 1989.
“I was inspired by NASA with our race to the moon,” said Gruber. “Technology was cool then and still gets me excited. VOA has a unique history that’s based on pioneering and innovation, just like NASA and Intel. The VOA brand and story offers a great opportunity to motivate and inspire our next generation of scientists and engineers. Technology still rocks!”
Gruber has already made an impact promoting the VOA museum’s profile among amateur radio aficionados. He was part of a WCARA group effort to create hands-on demonstrations for the Lakota School District’s Pi Day, which helped educate about 2,000 Lakota students about basic radio-related STEM topics of magnetism, basic electricity and radio wave theory.
The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting is located at 8070 Tylersville Road in West Chester. The museum is dedicated to preserving the important contributions the VOA and Bethany Station made in the fight against Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Cold War that followed.
The VOA museum consists of collections and exhibits from the VOA-Bethany Station; Media Heritage’s Greater Cincinnati Museum of Broadcast History; the Gray History of Wireless Museum; and the West Chester Amateur Radio Association control room.
It is undergoing renovation, but is open to the public on the third Saturday of each month from 1 to 4 p.m. and is open this month on Saturday, June 20. Admission is $5 for adults and $1 for children under 12.
Joe Gruber, left, and Clyde Gray are the new appointees to the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting board of directors.
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