This video is world class! Thank you for posting it. At 6:09, in the commercial for Superior Motors, both the Pontiac Grand Prix and the Buick Park Avenue are 1977 models.
Thank you so much for posting these two videos! I would have been three when this originally aired. I can remember watching the Brady Bunch on TV10, along with Gilligan's Island and Bewitched in the afternoons. It was great to see and hear Dave Rogers, one best voices on the air in Columbia, SC. And Joe Pinner in a leisure suit is priceless!
wow ! I remember we got WIS on cable in Greenwood -- and I remember the open to Carolina Today which was a takeoff on the then open for the NBC Today show, with the round sun and SC shape merging together for the open.. and the guy with the deep voice who intoned "W I S T V Ten Columbia:"
The DigiBeta was my source tape for capture in Final Cut Pro which I used to edit the clips into proper order for upload to UA-cam. Even though it's now a couple of analog generations along, they were all high-quality dubs and not taken from off-air. The most critical transfer was the first one; from 2-inch quad to 1-inch. I spent quite a bit of time to make sure the playback quad VTR was set up well to avoid color banding.
Wow Dennis, these tapes you saved were sure sturdy stuff - this clip looks and sounds perfect, definitely better than the "partly cloudy" signal we got from WIS in Rock Hill, whenever we did rotate the antenna the full 180° :)
What a trip down memory lane! I lived in Columbia from 1965-1989, and it's so hard to believe a "time capsule" like this still exists! I live in San Jose now, but I'm still a Carolinian! P.S. Is Joe "Mr. Knozit" Pinner still alive?
No wonder. Rock Hill is about 70 miles away from Columbia! That's fringe reception, AG. My recording was a studio recording (not from off-air), originally made on 2-inch quad tape, dubbed from 2-inch quad carts played on WIS' ACR-25 cart machine in 1976. In 199x-something, I copied the 2-inch original to 1-inch Type-C helical tape. Then in 1998 or so, I copied it once again to digital Beta.
My dad worked at WIS TV in the early '60s as well as WIS radio (am) Norb Lowery. I would love to see some of the tapes from that time period to share with dad. thanks
Thank you for preserving this! It’s real history.
This video is world class! Thank you for posting it. At 6:09, in the commercial for Superior Motors, both the Pontiac Grand Prix and the Buick Park Avenue are 1977 models.
Thank you so much for posting these two videos! I would have been three when this originally aired. I can remember watching the Brady Bunch on TV10, along with Gilligan's Island and Bewitched in the afternoons.
It was great to see and hear Dave Rogers, one best voices on the air in Columbia, SC. And Joe Pinner in a leisure suit is priceless!
wow ! I remember we got WIS on cable in Greenwood -- and I remember the open to Carolina Today which was a takeoff on the then open for the NBC Today show, with the round sun and SC shape merging together for the open.. and the guy with the deep voice who intoned "W I S T V Ten Columbia:"
The DigiBeta was my source tape for capture in Final Cut Pro which I used to edit the clips into proper order for upload to UA-cam. Even though it's now a couple of analog generations along, they were all high-quality dubs and not taken from off-air. The most critical transfer was the first one; from 2-inch quad to 1-inch. I spent quite a bit of time to make sure the playback quad VTR was set up well to avoid color banding.
Wow Dennis, these tapes you saved were sure sturdy stuff - this clip looks and sounds perfect, definitely better than the "partly cloudy" signal we got from WIS in Rock Hill, whenever we did rotate the antenna the full 180° :)
Yup, Joe's still kicking! He does the weather on a part-time basis, is older, a bit weathered, but healthy and very active.
What a trip down memory lane! I lived in Columbia from 1965-1989, and it's so hard to believe a "time capsule" like this still exists! I live in San Jose now, but I'm still a Carolinian! P.S. Is Joe "Mr. Knozit" Pinner still alive?
ultragor yes he still makes some appearances in commercials or for station charity type events, that voice is hard to forget
WIS TV is now a revolving door for staff & personnel
No wonder. Rock Hill is about 70 miles away from Columbia! That's fringe reception, AG.
My recording was a studio recording (not from off-air), originally made on 2-inch quad tape, dubbed from 2-inch quad carts played on WIS' ACR-25 cart machine in 1976. In 199x-something, I copied the 2-inch original to 1-inch Type-C helical tape. Then in 1998 or so, I copied it once again to digital Beta.
I forgot how much of a staple Joe Pinner was.
Aw, man! I was just about to settle in for that Laurel & Hardey show. I love those guys.
My dad worked at WIS TV in the early '60s as well as WIS radio (am) Norb Lowery. I would love to see some of the tapes from that time period to share with dad. thanks
Last I heard, he retired from WIS about a year ago.
How about Joe Pinner with the open shirt, and a chain!! LOL Joe Pinner still works on friday nights on WIS.
Joe Pinner isn't retired from WIS TV. he still work a weatherman for 49 year I don't know when Joe Pinner will plan to retire in the future.
They grew up and became video editors. ;)
This is so groovy.
0:09 1970s fashion in full effect
@Interests2009 Let alone still being made here in Toledo as well.
This is neat...
TOM TURNIPSEED!!