The veteran TV reporter will leave the station in March, he has announced.
After 28 years of inducting fraudsters and scam artists into his “Hall of Shame,” Fox 2’s Rob Wolchek has announced it’s time to call it a day.
The veteran TV investigator will leave WJBK-TV in March, he has announced. He has been with the station since 1997.
“I’ll be 67 years old,” Wolchek said on-air Monday evening, announcing his pending retirement. “I just feel like it’s time to spend more time with my wife and kids and grandchild, and not have to come to work five days a week.”
Wolchek began his career as a deejay at a country music radio station in Farmington, New Mexico. He later worked as a traffic reporter in Los Angeles before making the move to TV news at stations in Bakersfield and Fresno, California, and then joining the team at Fox 2.
“Detroit was supposed to be just a stop along the way in my career, but it became home,” Wolchek said. “You, the wonderful viewers, have embraced me and shown me way more love than I ever expected.”
Wolchek said he plans to continue to stay in Metro Detroit, and may continue to work on a part-time basis, “because I love my job,” he said.
And also, “I’ve still got some bad guys to catch.”
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