Joe Pinner has been a fixture on South Carolina television since 1963. He's known from one end of South Carolina to the other - and beyond, not only as a weatherman and familiar children’s show host "Mr. Knozit" for 37 years, but as a commercial spokesman and emcee at scores of parades and festivals statewide. Today Pinner, who still pitches in at WIS-TV on Fridays at age 80-something, talks about his beginnings in radio, how he developed his familiar, booming voice, and the origins of the Knozit show. Pinner's son Greg and former WIS-TV anchorwoman Susan Aude tell what it’s like to live and work with South Carolina’s bigger-than-life personality.
Joe Pinner – A South Carolina Broadcasting Legend
![Jovial Joe Pinner has been a familiar face, and voice, in South Carolina broadcasting for more than a half century.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7d69294/2147483647/strip/true/crop/534x400+0+0/resize/880x659!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwltr%2Ffiles%2F201705%2FJoePinner.jpg)
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