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TV Yule Log

Verizon Fios has the yule log on demand. Just crackle sounds and the occasional tick from expanding metal. :-\ Meh

It looks like they zoomed in too much. :(

They could play Christmas music :'(

Or Disco Inferno, Burnin' for You, Fire & Rain, etc :D ;)
 
A Yule log?
Heh, On the Canadian side (Toronto, Ontario) there's a Yule log channel 24/7.
(Log channel info: http://tvguide.ca/Special_Features/...ticles/091214_nutsandbolts_HD_yule_log_GD.htm )

Why stop there? The cable company also went all out to offer

A sunset channel, an Aquarium channel (you are reading correctly, a camera pointed at a fish tank 24/7!!!)
as well as as the cottage channel...as in literally a camera pointing at the lake.

"All you need to complete the illusion is an Adirondack chair and a cooler of beer. And you can leave that bug spray behind – no mosquitoes biting you at this cottage. Unless you open your window."

Source: http://tvguide.ca/Watercooler/NutsandBolts/Articles/100329_nutsandbolts_rogers_channels_GD.htm

I kid you not, these are actual channels now available!
 
The Charlotte, NC, My Network station is already advertising a 20-hour program for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

I have part of last year's on TiVo due to recording the Thursday night movie each week. I haven't seen it yet.
 
any truth to the rumor that the 2011 MyNetwork TV fall schedule will consist
soley of Yule Log, Soothing Aquarium, and American Idol Rewind? ;D
 
vchimpanzee said:
The Charlotte, NC, My Network station is already advertising a 20-hour program for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

I have part of last year's on TiVo due to recording the Thursday night movie each week. I haven't seen it yet.
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Time Warner has it on their free movies on demand as well.
 
No log this year on WGN America (or much Christmas programming to speak of, unless you count Lifetime movies like "The Diva's Christmas Carol" from eight years ago bought for bus tokens and coins found in Colonel McCormick's office couch as such ???), so the only choice this year on cable for the yule log seems to be Gospel Music Channel (or "gmc" as they want us to know them by now). Oddly, theirs is much nicer than the usual Tribune variety.

And this year in a different way, PBS Kids Sprout is offering kids too hyper to stay up their annual "Goodnight of Sweet Dreams", which is 12 hours (!) of an infinite loop of the network's characters sleeping to the sound of a soft lullaby which is strangely hypnotizing and will knock anyone's circadian cycle to kingdom come :D.
 
No locals in Central CA has the Yule log, but Xfinity has it on On Demand 10 different choices.
 
Okay, another question:

What's on the "log channel"? Just the sound of burning logs? Or some Christmas music to go with it?

I'm finding both options without problem. (Local community cable channel has the music while the "log channel" is just burning the log)
 
Time Warner Cable Northeast Ohio has been running the log on its local programming channel (Northeast Ohio Network or "NEON") all day.

TWC has been offering it via inDemand as well.

Broadcast-wise, I thought I saw the log a bit this morning on Raycom MyNetwork TV affiliate WUAB/43, but it went away next time I checked. The listings for that hour (and all morning) showed paid programming, so maybe they only ran it when they had an unsponsored half-hour.
 
The CW 100+ station in Jackson, TN carried the Yule Log overnight, except for one interruption for an infomercial at 2:30 AM. I hope that this was just a mistake in Charter's TV Guide listings, and that they didn't actually do something that stupid.

There was another mistake in Charter's TV Guide listings last night. They had the original Miracle on 34th Street listed as being TV 14 on the various channels that carried it, although AMC had it listed as TV G and WGN America had it listed as TV PG. The PG rating might could be justified from the basis of the movie questioning whether Santa Claus really exists, (He DOES, doesn't he???) but TV 14???
 
Yeziknoradio said:
A Yule log?
Heh, On the Canadian side (Toronto, Ontario) there's a Yule log channel 24/7.
(Log channel info: http://tvguide.ca/Special_Features/...ticles/091214_nutsandbolts_HD_yule_log_GD.htm )

Why stop there? The cable company also went all out to offer

A sunset channel, an Aquarium channel (you are reading correctly, a camera pointed at a fish tank 24/7!!!)
as well as as the cottage channel...as in literally a camera pointing at the lake.

"All you need to complete the illusion is an Adirondack chair and a cooler of beer. And you can leave that bug spray behind – no mosquitoes biting you at this cottage. Unless you open your window."

Source: http://tvguide.ca/Watercooler/NutsandBolts/Articles/100329_nutsandbolts_rogers_channels_GD.htm

I kid you not, these are actual channels now available!
Click to expand...

And BellTV ran 2 Yule Log channels, one carrying French-language Christmas music and one running English-language music...looks to be the same viz on both channels.
 
anotherguy said:
... Charter's TV Guide listings... had the original Miracle on 34th Street listed as being TV 14 on the various channels that carried it, although AMC had it listed as TV G and WGN America had it listed as TV PG. The PG rating might could be justified from the basis of the movie questioning whether Santa Claus really exists, (He DOES, doesn't he???) but TV 14???
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You know, with some of the subject matter in "It's A Wonderful Life" - e.g. George Bailey's suicidal thoughts, not to mention taking a sucker punch from the schoolteacher's wife at the bar - I'm surprised that movie still gets a TV-G rating after all these years! (Though the film itself is G-rated, so...)
 
I didn't listen this year, but I wished I had.

However, I played back last year's with my TiVo, and I don't know whether this is true of everyone, but the music was very conservative with lots of instrumentals and mostly religious.

My original plan was to listen to it when I took down the tree (I was actually too far away from the TV to really enjoy the music) but I forgot about it. And I didn't listen to Christmas music on the radio this year while taking down the tree because the station where I normally listen had church services. I wasn't going to take the tree down on Sunday but there was so much snow my aunt called off Christmas. I figured the family would get together on Monday instead of Sunday, but my aunt's oldest daughter and her family were going home Monday. So I found out too late. But I have a computer at home so I didn't have time to do it today anyway--although there would have been no Christmas music on the radio and TiVo would have been the only way.

I still had Christmas, because the others decided their roads were clear, and my aunt lives on a main road. So it worked out and we got our Christmas. Saturday wouldn't have worked because everyone besides me had other plans.
 
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