Gary Shapiro, a longtime familiar face and voice to 9NEWS television viewers, will retire in December of 2022 after four decades on air, the Denver station announced Wednesday. Since 1989, Shapiro has anchored 9NEWS Mornings, after first joining the station as a Boulder Bureau Reporter in 1983. “It’s just time. Even though it was never easy getting up in the middle of the night, I’ve loved being on the morning show with such a great crew, and with so many wonderful viewers,” Shapiro said in a 9NEWS story.