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This brings back some great memories for me! I'm originally from the NY metro area and used to love having the Log on WPIX on Christmas Eve. We'd be making cookies or other assorted Christmas stuff and the music would play and the log was burning in the background. We didn't have a real fireplace so this was as close as it got! I've since moved away, but thanks for the bit of nostalgia!

Yeah, it was broadcast on Christmas Eve night the whole time I was growing up. Although I liked it better that way, Christmas morning is fine, and I'm just glad they brought it back. People who didn't grow up with it can laugh (I probably would, too) but if you're over 30 and from the NY Metro area, you understand.

it use to be on all christmas eve night from like 11pm till like 12pm christmas day

Love the log, but it jumped when the camera pulled out and we saw the full fireplace - then push back in?!?! My real fireplace doesn't change perspective, neither should the place on the TV.

I can't believe this counts as a show...

Whoops... I hit "submit" instead of "preview." So, to expand on my earlier comment: the WPIX Yule Log has been a part of Christmas since my childhood in a railroad apartment in Ridgewood, Queens, where our only "fireplace" was a cardboard cut-out on which my sister and I hung our stockings. To this day, I enjoy to tune in the Log and have it on in the background as I go about my Christmas business, or just sit down to watch it with an 'adult beverage' and zone out. It's a holiday tradition that connects me to my past; only "Charlie Brown Christmas" can compare when it comes to sentimental value.

Those who would mock the Log are either not from New York, or have black, black hearts

Born-and-bred New Yorker... The WPIX Yule Log is a cherished tradition.

I never saw the Yule Log growing up. I didn't even know it existed untill last Christmas when my wife had it on. I enjoyed it, and hope it's on again this Christmas

I think it jumped the shark when yule and Hanna got married, then broke up three episodes later when he had a gay affair with Brett when they moved to Florida so he could jump the shark and be touched by Mr. Belbidear....Jk I love the log at christmas time.

Who would you say is funnier, WPIX's Yule Log, or Laurel and Hardy. I would have to say the Yule Log.

Oh come on, it jumped lots of ways:

Same character/different actor. The original log was replaced.

Move to California. Same as I Love Lucy.

It was shot in California in July the second time around.

I do love it though.

The Yule Log in HD? Now hi-def has jumped the shark.

You diss the Yule Log and you diss 8-million hard-core New Yorkers! The log is woven into the fabric of the NY metro area. Long live the log!! X-mas was never the same when the log was axed after 1989.

I don't care if you live in New York (like me -- one of the unfortunates upon which this Channel 11 fiasco is continually foisted), or Arizona or Timbuktu or Butt-f*ck Iowa. This show is terrible. Dad used to love yule log. Now that dad is no longer with us, mom has now insisted that we have it on (NOT actively watching, no- that's just plain torture, and makes my feet itch... but I digress) in dad's memory -- lovely ain't it folks? No, it ain't. I can only stomach Yule Log when I have consumed a substantial amount of very strong egg nog. Baaad Yule Log, baaad! p.s.: The poster who wrote about the top log burning and dying had me laughing out loud. Very funny post!

The Yule Log, for me, takes me back to my childhood and the wonderful memories of Christmas with my family. More than any other time, the Christmas season is a time of tradition and nostalgia. For many around the country, the tradition doesn't go back quite as far as it does for us here in the NY area. The good news is that it can. My children may never appreciate the history of this great program, but they will come to connect it to wonderful memories and those memories will, hopefully, continue this great Christmas tradition.