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Yule Log

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ssetta

How many local stations still have a Yule Log on Christmas morning, and how long does it run? WFXT Boston has had one for the past several years. This year it’s on from 7:30 to 10 am. I wouldn’t be surprised if WPIX still had it.
 
Roku has a streaming channel of nothing but the Yule Log.
 
Ccook55 said:
Roku has a streaming channel of nothing but the Yule Log.
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Where can I find it?

ssetta said:
How many local stations still have a Yule Log on Christmas morning, and how long does it run? WFXT Boston has had one for the past several years. This year it’s on from 7:30 to 10 am. I wouldn’t be surprised if WPIX still had it.
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KSTC Minneapolis will air it from 6:00 p.m. Christmas Eve to 12:00 Midnight Christmas Night. That's a whopping 30 hours.

Others, according to TheYuleLog.com, are as follows:

• New York/WPIX ~ 9am-1pm ET (checking listings myself, WPIX will also air another hour from 4-5pm ET)
• Philadelphia/WPHL ~ 7-10am ET
• Seattle/KZJO ~ 8-10am PT
• Salt Lake City/KSTU ~ 8:30-9am MT (checking listings, KSTU will actually air it from 4-6 and 6:30-7am MT)
• St. Louis/KPLR ~ 6-10am CT (checking listings, KPLR will actually air it from 5-9am CT)
• Indianapolis/WXIN ~ 6-9am ET
• Chicago/WGN ~ 1:30-6:30am CT

Antenna TV will only air it for 4 hours this year: 5-9am ET/4-8am CT/3-7am MT/2-6am PT.

The website also mentions KDAF/Dallas, KIAH/Houston, KTLA/Los Angeles and KSWB/San Diego. They're not showing the WPIX Yule Log; however, KTLA will air its own Yule Log from 4am-12pm PT and KSWB will do the same but just from 4-6am PT.

Other than that, that's all I know.

I know that WSFL here in Miami would partake in this too, but because its now a Scripps station, its pretty much all but dead for airing it here.
 
ssetta said:
How many local stations still have a Yule Log on Christmas morning, and how long does it run? WFXT Boston has had one for the past several years. This year it’s on from 7:30 to 10 am. I wouldn’t be surprised if WPIX still had it.
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DISH Network has 2. One called Traditional Yule log and the other Modern fireplace. They've been airing since Thanksgiving...
 
WXCW used to air their version of the Yule Log (it's a pit fire) from 12/24 at 11:00pm to 12/25 at 10:00am. This year it's on 12/25 from 4:00am to 10:00am. They simulcast Christmas music from WINK-FM.
 
In Phoenix, KTVK/3 is airing Arizona's Family Yule Log between 7 and 9 AM. KSAZ/10 is airing its long-time Yule Log between 7 and 11 AM (it ran for years on sister station KUTP/45).

For those with Roku boxes, The Roku Channel has a Yule Log Channel 24/7 on Channel 106. You'll have to supply your own music, and I don't know how long it'll last over the long term.
 
seatownmedia said:
Come on everyone, this is just a way to give personnel time off. And that is fine with me. Merry Christmas!
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When you live in an area where the holidays are no-burn days per the EPA, TV yule logs are all we're all we can have legally.
 
KeithE4 said:
In Phoenix, KTVK/3 is airing Arizona's Family Yule Log between 7 and 9 AM. KSAZ/10 is airing its long-time Yule Log between 7 and 11 AM (it ran for years on sister station KUTP/45).
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KSAZ/10 played the audio from KEZ/9.9 but what I heard in the +/- 30 minutes I listened was mostly 'modern' covers.....in other words, unlistenable. There has to be a better catalog of holiday classics than those.
 
landtuna said:
KSAZ/10 played the audio from KEZ/9.9 but what I heard in the +/- 30 minutes I listened was mostly 'modern' covers.....in other words, unlistenable. There has to be a better catalog of holiday classics than those.
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Mr. Volume Control is your friend. :D

I turn the volume down and play my own Christmas music. I have everything from The Three Tenors to Mannheim Steamroller to Spike Jones, with a lot of other instrumentals to go with them. Sir Paul, Mariah, Wham, and the like are nowhere to be found.
 
landtuna said:
KSAZ/10 played the audio from KEZ/9.9 but what I heard in the +/- 30 minutes I listened was mostly 'modern' covers.....in other words, unlistenable. There has to be a better catalog of holiday classics than those.
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You could have watched the Dr. Demento Yule log on You Tube 🤪 :

You'd probably hate that one even more. :)
 
In the New York metropolitan area, WLNY-TV airs a similar program entitled Yule Tide Log, which includes an audio simulcast of WCBS-FM's Christmas music broadcast. It airs during most of Christmas Eve except for interruptions for the nine o'clock news and the Midnight Mass.
 
landtuna said:
KSAZ/10 played the audio from KEZ/9.9 but what I heard in the +/- 30 minutes I listened was mostly 'modern' covers.....in other words, unlistenable. There has to be a better catalog of holiday classics than those.
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I still have a recording of a Yule Log from 2009. Mostly very traditional music and a lot of it is Christian. The next year on the same station the music was much more contemporary.
 
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