Snippets of D-FW anchor dean Clarice Tinsley during her wonder years at Milwaukee's WITI-TV
03/16/11 01:42 PM
By ED BARK
Anchor Clarice Tinsley, now in her 33rd year at Dallas-based KDFW-TV (Fox4), spent three years at WITI-TV in Milwaukee before heading here.
Your friendly content provider and native Wisconsinite grew up in Racine watching nearby Milwaukee TV stations, but was a cub reporter and college kid at the University of Wisconsin in Madison by the time Tinsley joined WITI. The station had a long and proud history, and never tired of promoting it. But WITI also was the longtime home base of Albert the Alley Cat, a hand puppet voiced by the station manager who was as popular -- if not more so -- as any of WITI's human personalities. Albert worked with the station's weathercaster for many years before moving over to sports.
Stand-alone footage of Tinsley with Albert may not exist. But you can catch glimpses of her in this one-minute 1978 WITI promo with the theme song, "Count On Us to Take You There." Watch closely at the 34-second mark and again at the 42-second mark during a big holiday dinner scene that of course includes Albert hamming it up.
Ah, the golden age of television, complete with wisecracking weather puppets. Enjoy.
Anchor Clarice Tinsley, now in her 33rd year at Dallas-based KDFW-TV (Fox4), spent three years at WITI-TV in Milwaukee before heading here.
Your friendly content provider and native Wisconsinite grew up in Racine watching nearby Milwaukee TV stations, but was a cub reporter and college kid at the University of Wisconsin in Madison by the time Tinsley joined WITI. The station had a long and proud history, and never tired of promoting it. But WITI also was the longtime home base of Albert the Alley Cat, a hand puppet voiced by the station manager who was as popular -- if not more so -- as any of WITI's human personalities. Albert worked with the station's weathercaster for many years before moving over to sports.
Stand-alone footage of Tinsley with Albert may not exist. But you can catch glimpses of her in this one-minute 1978 WITI promo with the theme song, "Count On Us to Take You There." Watch closely at the 34-second mark and again at the 42-second mark during a big holiday dinner scene that of course includes Albert hamming it up.
Ah, the golden age of television, complete with wisecracking weather puppets. Enjoy.