Former television personality Joe Pinner has died at 89, according to a statement from Pinner’s family read on his longtime station WIS-TV Sunday night.
Pinner, who had an extensive and celebrated career in South Carolina broadcasting, “passed peacefully this weekend with his sons Michael and Gregg by his side,” the family statement said.
“His joyfulness was so contagious,” said a tearful longtime WIS-TV anchor Judi Gatson, herself a popular television personality, in announcing Pinner’s passing Sunday night on the station…