Yule Log Video: Watch The Christmas Fire Classic From WPIX New York (VIDEO)

Maybe you want to gather around the fire this Christmas, but you don't have a fireplace. Or you're a displaced New Yorker who wants a sliver of home on this holiday. Or maybe you've just watched one too many hours of "A Christmas Story." Whatever your reasoning, the classic Yule Log awaits.

A remarkable and unlikely story, the holiday tradition of showing a log burning in a festive fireplace, set to classic Christmas music, still burns on today. It began in 1966, on New York TV station WPIX, with a loop of a placid domestic scene at the Mayor's Gracie Mansion that was broadcast on Christmas Eve. A new video was shot in California in 1970, and for years, continued to be shown on that local channel and other networks throughout the nation. It went on hiatus in 1989, was brought back in 2001 and is shown to this day from 9 am to 1pm.

For more on the history of the Yule Log, click over to the Daily News.

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[JScott]

08:57 AM on 12/26/2011

Now we have it on 2 stations in the L A area 5 and 9 both do it. And you can buy a DVD and play it on you flat screen TV on Christmas if you are sans real fireplace.

[sassycats61]

07:17 AM on 12/26/2011

It was nice....just didn't care for the commercial breaks.

[stape45]

12:06 AM on 12/26/2011

Yule log, I'll log.... Life is good!

[94613]

10:29 PM on 12/25/2011

That Yule Log is sure to be CrowdPleasure. A real RimmRider to take in the Holiday Festivities.
Thank You Urban Dictonary.

[O K Ali]

09:51 PM on 12/25/2011

It came on, right after It's a Wonderful life ended.

[finallylegal]

05:19 PM on 12/25/2011

what a coincidence! i was just about to burn a yule log of my own!

[wanglog]

11:23 PM on 12/25/2011

it is indeed a coincidence! i just gave my girlfriend a yule log!

[Lucille]

02:46 PM on 12/25/2011

I had this turned on my television today; it’s a beautiful picture with holiday music playing in the background but doesn’t compete with the noise the family is making - wonderful. I like the new, lighter colored mantel too.

[lb333]

02:08 PM on 12/25/2011

Growing up in the Berkshires, MA we always had this on tv on Christmas! too funny!