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?
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:"
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° :)
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My recording was a studio recording (not from off-air), originally made on 2-inch quad tape, dubbed from 2-inch quad carts played on WIS' ACR-25 cart machine in 1976.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.
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 YouTube. 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.
Thanks for posting these Dennis, I love watching TV clips from the 70s and it was great to see such a long pair of videos with both a newscast and lots of great commercials. Awesome! Good to know I can get a '76 Gremlin for only $2898.
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!
Aw, man! I was just about to settle in for that Laurel & Hardey show. I love those guys.
cesspresso 1 year ago
This is so groovy.
redcorncob 1 year ago
I want to buy that '76 GREMLIN
orthopolus77 1 year ago
How about Joe Pinner with the open shirt, and a chain!! LOL Joe Pinner still works on friday nights on WIS.
tedder1931 2 years ago
TOM TURNIPSEED!!
redcorncob 2 years ago
Tom Turnipseed?! ( 5:37 )
Also: a bobblehead doll nearly 30 years before I knew they existed! ( 6:17 )
Here's act 1.
sammyreed 2 years ago
Cool! This was from a time in which AMC made the Jeep and not Chrysler.
Interests2009 3 years ago
@Interests2009 Let alone still being made here in Toledo as well.
RetroToledo 3 months ago
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 3 years ago
Last I heard, he retired from WIS about a year ago.
DennisDegan 3 years ago
There's a 2009 video of Joe Pinner on youtube where he is doing the weather..lol..I was on Mr.Knozit in 1976.
:)
showreelemile 2 years ago
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:"
joebradio 3 years ago
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° :)
agturnerfc 3 years ago
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.
DennisDegan 3 years ago
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 YouTube. 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.
DennisDegan 3 years ago
Ah...JB White! A truly great department store! Too bad they got sucked up by Dillard's...ugh.
RaleighNC306 3 years ago
Thanks for posting these Dennis, I love watching TV clips from the 70s and it was great to see such a long pair of videos with both a newscast and lots of great commercials. Awesome! Good to know I can get a '76 Gremlin for only $2898.
robsretropalace 3 years ago
Where, oh where, have all the full-voiced announcers gone?
mobilene 3 years ago
They grew up and became video editors. ;)
DennisDegan 3 years ago
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!
courier72 3 years ago