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  • Yo, what's wrong with the state we got?! It lives pretty good, don't it?

  • Love that intro I got a tour of the WBRC TV station in Birmingham, there WBRC sign is huge!

  • it's a promo for all of the world, it has several cities and countries around the globe with same song, singers sing the same thing for that city, state, or country..

  • @burbank this isn't a promo for Alabama... it's a promo for WBRC in Birmingham.

  • My grandmother-in-law lives in that vicinity.

  • I am originally from Birmingham, AL and must say that it is the best city I have ever lived in. By the way this video was taken probably around 1985-86 because, in one of the scenes, you can see the construction of the Riverchase Galleria which opened in 1986.

  • really !?!, lived in Alabama all my life & i didn't know the Galleria was opened for 23 years...great info :)

  • I believe that was a commercial from the 1980's. I grew up with WBRC in the 1990's and I think that was Scott Richards in that commercial who is still on WBRC and has been almost his entire career. He and Janet Hall are great together.

  • haha!!!!

  • I've rode through parts of Alabama and it has some very pretty places

    Mobile also has some of the best beaches

  • Hi,I'm from Jasper and we have the best contract killers for hire.

    At least that's what I heard on Geraldo..

  • I lived in Bama, I like Bama, but this was ghey 80's stuff.

  • This video was the good ole days. I wish it was still like that.

  • I don't know what you people expect.

    I mean, it's a TV campaign. Of course they're gonna make Alabama look REALLY good!

  • I live in Alabama and it just as neato as this video. Plus, it's home to Gomer Pyle and Truman Capote and lots of other famous gays. Many American Idols are from here too, but I won't mention them because they are not the one that rhymes with Gay Bacon. I like homosexuals and that is why I enjoy living in Alabama. All that stuff about the redneck racists, it's not true. Big-guts, yes, but bigots? No! I love it here and so does my cross-dressing brother. Roll Tide!

  • Aw, come on. It's got Bill Elliot. It can't be that bad.

  • I didn't see Bill Elliott. I did, however, see Neil Bonnett.

  • I've lived in many places, but Alabama is home to me.

    There's no place like it on earth, and if other people don't see how great it is, I'm o.k. with that. Alabama is the kind of place that once you move here, you never want to leave. There's no other place like it.

  • I'm from alabama too, but unless you're in mobile or birmingham it sucks dick

    a complete fucking cultural wasteland

    sorry, but its the truth

  • wow! you sownd rilly learned! fuckin A yeah! Getcha sum edjucashun in mobile, yeah? Suck dick?

  • Birmingham is nothing but a dirty inner city. Theres nothing good about that place.

  • This is just a PR campaign for Alabama. I am sure there are some places that are nice. I am also sure they have their share of dumpy areas like everyplace else.

  • Alabama is awesome! I live in alabama and its just like..yess i live in alabama. hahaa =)) no but i sincerely like alabama. although..i dont really like this video ..it doesnt really... i dunno.. click with me..and seeing as how i live in alabama..i think it should. hahaha

  • Well it was definitely a PR campaign for Alabama. They really sogarcoated it. There was a similar song jingle campaign titled, "Western Massachusetts is Great!" It isn't but hey they needed a PR campaign, too. All commercialized PR!

  • @burbank look up atand up and tell em adelaide's great ( Adelaide, Perth, Austrailia)  lol you'll be surprised almost word for word commercail and song.

  • @burbank look up stand up and tell em adelaide's great ( Adelaide, Perth, Austrailia) lol  you'll be surprised almost word for word commercail and song.

  • @burbank look up stand up and tell em adelaide's great ( Adelaide, Perth, Austrailia) lol you'll be surprised almost word for word commercail and song. or look up brisbane's great, also in austrailia.

  • That video is idk lol.

    I live in Alabama and not everywhere is like that.

    The place I live is not like any of those except there is some really pretty landscape and such but yeah lol

  • I live in Alabama and it is not that bad... but if that video is what everyone else sees I can definitely see why they think it sucks here.

  • Alabama sucks

  • Joe Langston pitching horseshoes, Country Boy Eddy playing fiddle on the mountaintop ... beautiful! I have only a vague memory of this piece, typical channel 6 - familiar faces, down-home style but with a high degree of professionalism.

    This was produced around 1986, back when Joe L. was the station's main news anchor, Eddy had the predawn music show, Tom York came on afterward, and all was right in Birmingham. You had to have been there to appreciate it.

  • KVBC Channel 3 in Las Vegas used a similar music theme in the 1980s.

  • Check out WXYZ, Channel 7 Detroit clips... "Stand up and tell them you're from Detroit!"

  • i believe its the same jingle. could that have been made by ABC and could there be other versions aired by other ABC stations? (as at the time WBRC was affiliated with ABC)

  • @cwf1701 This promo was actually made by Frank Gari... He is the mastermind behind the "Stand Up..." and the "Turn to..." campaigns. The majority of these were on ABC stations, but there are some NBC & FOX stations in there as well... search "WKYC/Turn to 3" and "KCBA 35 Turn To"... those are NBC and FOX, respectively.

  • @kvasicek100 and WBRC then ABC

  • Wooooohoooooooo! Alabama rocks!!!!

  • what a lie, this is the worst place to live...bama sux!

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