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The longest presentation of a Yule Log Ever?

KSTC 5.2 in Minneapolis-St. Paul is going 30 hours with Yule Log this year: from 6 PM on Christmas Eve through the entire 24 hours of Christmas day. They've typically done the broadcast for at least 24 hours the last few years, but I don't think they've ever gone quite as long as is the case this year.
 
I was just going to reply with KTXA - crackedscreen beat me. 22 hours of Yule Log for DFW viewers.

-crainbebo
 
In the Fort Myers/Naples market, WXCW is once again airing the "yule log"...but this time it began at 6:00 am and it's a bonfire by the beach near a palm tree.

The music is simulcast from WINK-FM "96 Dot 9 More FM," which is now airing Christmas music since the previous station (formerly WTLT Lite 93.7/Christmas 93.7) is now active rock station WXNX "93X."
 
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ESPN3, the online-only service of ESPN, jumped on the Yule Log bandwagon (or is it a sleigh?) this year with four hours of it last night. The interesting part -- well, relatively speaking; it's a burning chunk of wood, after all -- is that there was no accompanying music, just ambient audio of a burning log. Are all these other logs around the country playing Christmas/winter music with their video, in the grand WPIX tradition?
 
This one takes the prize...

SEC Network's Christmas morning with yule log and fight songs

I didn't believe it until I saw it this morning.

Read on:

On Christmas morning, from 6 -10 a.m. ET, SEC Network will warm up any living room with a fireplace featuring a burning blaze, accompanied by a playlist of Southeastern Conference college fight songs and holiday music. Tiny tots can watch the fire glow to the tune of:

• Yea Alabama
• Arkansas Fight
• War Eagle (Auburn)
• Orange & Blue (Florida)
• Glory, Glory (Georgia)
• On! On! U of K (Kentucky)
• Fight for LSU
• Hail State (Mississippi State)
• Forward Rebels (Ole Miss)
• Fight, Tiger (Missouri)
• Step to the Rear (South Carolina)
• Down the Field (Tennessee)
• Aggie War Hymn (Texas A&M)
• Dynamite (Vanderbilt)

The songs will be interwoven with holiday favorites like "Oh Christmas Tree", "Jingle Bells" and the "12 Days of Christmas", all commercial free.
Click to expand...

:D:D:D
 
If the video is a repeating loop, doesn't the clock for "The longest presentation of a Yule Log Ever" re-set. To refresh everyone's memories, the original Yule Log was a single log that was set ablaze at the start of a party. The party only continued for as long as the Yule Log burned. When the single Yule Log was all burned up, you didn't fire up another one. When the Yule Log was finished, the party was over.

So, in the full Yuletide spirit of my own personal Teutonic ancestors, to qualify as The longest presentation of a Yule Log Ever", doesn't it have to be one single video recording of a single log that only lasts as long as the log lasts?
 
From what I saw, UP's 24-hour log presentation beat everyone this year, 7pm Christmas Eve-Christmas Night this year. But in the past, I know HSN went 36 hours with a Yule Log up to about 1995 before they decided a mix of local choirs and live-to-tape sales pitches kept some business coming in on their .com side.
 
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