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 ...

Fred Thrower came up with the idea for the TV fire in 1966. "There's something very special about the fact that you're watching the same burning... Gather 'Round The Screen To Enjoy The Warmth Of The ...

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 ...

If any further proof is needed that TV watching is not foremost on people’s minds during Christmas Day, WPIX New York harvested more viewers than any other local TV station from 8 a.m. to noon by ...

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.

From Ozzy to Baby Yoda, here are some made-for-TV fires that will (sort of not really) keep you warm Ah, the televised burning Yule log, a symbol of the holidays that, depending on how you look at it, ...