Joyce Garbaciak is leaving the anchor desk for good at WISN-TV (Channel 12) in Milwaukee

Joyce Garbaciak, a fixture on the Milwaukee television news scene for 36 years, is leaving the anchor desk for good at WISN-TV (Channel 12). But she's not leaving the business completely.

The Milwaukee ABC affiliate announced Tuesday that Garbaciak, a reporter and anchor on Milwaukee TV since 1988, will leave her anchor job at the station at the end of May. She'll continue at Channel 12 as a "special projects" contributing correspondent and report on stories "in a limited capacity," the station said.

The news came seven months after Garbaciak decided to pull back from anchoring Channel 12's 10 p.m. newscast while continuing to co-anchor the station's 6 p.m. newscast. According to the station, her final 6 p.m. anchor shift will be May 31.

Garbaciak joined Channel 12 in 2006 as a contributing correspondent and became a news anchor in 2014. Before her time at Channel 12, she was a reporter and anchor at Milwaukee's WITI-TV (Channel 6) from 1988 to 2005. Before that, she worked at WSAW-TV in Wausau and WTVF-TV in Nashville, Tennessee.

Channel 12 said it planned to announce Garbaciak's replacement on the station's 6 p.m. newscast soon.

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