This article originally ran on Dec. 25, 2008. From a TV perspective, Christmas Eve 1966 looked grim. The regular Saturday night college basketball broadcast was suspended due to the holiday, and while ...

Viacom-owned KCAL-TV is bringing the Yule Log to Los Angeles, airing three hours of a flaming fireplace Christmas morning. KCAL borrowed the idea from New York’s WPIX-TV, which made the Yule Log an ...

Half a century ago, Fred M. Thrower, president of New York's WPIX-TV had an idea. Film a few minutes of a log burning in a fireplace, loop it, and broadcast it for hours on Christmas morning. The Yule ...

The TV “yule log” — a live broadcast of a fireplace — is a holiday tradition that started here in NYC in 1966 on station WPIX. Others have copied the concept since but leave it to Nick Offerman to ...

There's a yule duel brewing this Christmas Day. Not one, but two versions of "The Yule Log," one of TV's oddest yet most heartwarming holiday habits, will beckon families as they open their gifts.

It had to happen: the yule log in 3-D. This latest refinement carries a whiff of retrofitted modernity, like a space capsule upholstered in chintz or a Microsoft Kinect game of croquet. But each ...