December 24, 2011
FROM THE ARCHIVES: HALLELUJAH! IT BURNS AGAIN!:
Yule log telecast lights fire of New York viewers (AP, December 28, 2002)A TV broadcast of logs burning in a fireplace to a Christmas carol soundtrack burned up the ratings this year. The uninterrupted two-hour Christmas morning broadcast of the ''Yule Log Christmas Special,'' a holiday tradition for hearthless New Yorkers, returned to the air in 2001 after a 12-year hiatus. Wednesday's showing, from 9 to 11 a.m., boasted 284,012 viewing households, a 26 percent boost in viewership compared with last year, WPIX-Channel 11 said. It smoked the 1 p.m. airing of the 1951 classic film version of Charles Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol,'' starring Alistair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, by 29,000 households. The rather bizarre Christmas tradition also burned up the airwaves every year from 1966 to 1989.For a third of a century, the Brothers have been at war over the Yule Log, with the philistine claiming it's a 10 second tape loop repeated over and over and I stubbornly maintaining it was originally a live broadcast. I deeply resent the term "bizarre" in this un-American, borderline-fascistic story. [originally posted: 2002-12-28]
Posted by oj at December 24, 2011 12:48 AM
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Having had the pleasure (?) of watching the Log for many years with the Brothers Judd, I have to agree with the younger, more analytical Brother's opinion that it's a rather short tape loop....
Posted by: Foos at December 30, 2002 11:19 AM
heh heh heh....THIS from the guy who thinks cycling is boring to watch! :>} Not to worry, my wife and I watch the yule log ebery year....sort of the winter time version of the Tour De France (LOL).
Posted by: Budd White at December 29, 2002 12:58 AMHappy New Year, and thanks again for your great blog