WIS-TV 1975 Pt2

More material from WIS-TV Columbia, SC as seen in 1975, including part of a newscast with anchor Ed Carter and weatherman Joe Pinner. The 5th item is a Carolina Today promo in which I threaten Joe with a pie. After Joe's weather is a Furniture Salvage spot with my voiceover on it.

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[ultragor]

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?

[DennisDegan]

Last I heard, he retired from WIS about a year ago.

[agturnerfc]

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° :)

[DennisDegan]

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My recording was a studio recording (not from off-air), originally made on 2-inch quad tape, dubbed from 2-inch quad carts played on WIS' ACR-25 cart machine in 1976.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]

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.

[mobilene]

Where, oh where, have all the full-voiced announcers gone?

[DennisDegan]

They grew up and became video editors.  ;)

[RetroToledo]

@Interests2009 Let alone still being made here in Toledo as well.

[cesspresso]

Aw, man! I was just about to settle in for that Laurel & Hardey show. I love those guys.

[redcorncob]

This is so groovy.

[orthopolus77]

I want to buy that '76 GREMLIN

[tedder1931]

How about Joe Pinner with the open shirt, and a chain!! LOL Joe Pinner still works on friday nights on WIS.

[redcorncob]

TOM TURNIPSEED!!

[showreelemile]

There's a 2009 video of Joe Pinner on youtube where he is doing the weather..lol..I was on Mr.Knozit in 1976.

:)

[sammyreed]

Tom Turnipseed?! ( 5:37 )

Also: a bobblehead doll nearly 30 years before I knew they existed! ( 6:17 )

Here's act 1.

[Interests2009]

Cool! This was from a time in which AMC made the Jeep and not Chrysler.