Chip,

I'm sure Sean will have some type of excuse that they put in the wrong tape or something, but I believe that WPIX sends the entire 4-hour program to the Tribune Affiliates so they have it so broadcast.  I understand your displeaser and even though I wasn't able to watch it on any TV station this year, I feel your pain as you did put your heart and soul into this and was assured that Antenna TV would be the new home for The Yule Log.  But with Sean Compton, history seems to repeat itself every year.

Going back a few years we were promised they would broad cast the restored 3 hours if my memory is correct, but they only did the 2-hour version then they promised that they would broadcast the entire 4-hour version on WGN America but decided to pull it from their lineup for other programming.  So again we were all let down.

It isn't fair that the people in Chicago that get the direct WGN channel are able to view The Yule Log, but WGN America and/or Antenna TV won't show it or they show a butchered version.

But as least as I've already mentioned that I was able to DVR it last year and from WPIX and not an affiliate.  So I have it on DVD now.

The year before, we lost signal and I wasn't able to DVR the entire broadcast so I was very fortunate that last year the weather was good and we didn't lose signal so I have a good quality DVD of the WPIX broadcast and even March of the Wooden Soldiers/Babes in Toyland that WPIX broadcast.  I forget right now which is the original title, but I do have it with the WPIX Logo on the screen and that means a lot to me because WPIX was my favorite TV Station growing up and to have anything from them on video is a plus for me.  It takes me back to when I lived in the area and was watching these programs before VCR's and it is good memories of my youth.

I'm so sorry for all the people who depended on Antenna TV for this years broadcast only to be let down by them not broadcasting it in it's entirety and even repeating portions.

I can onlly imagine what Sean's response will be.

*[Edited to add something else.]
I just wanted to add that I am still watcing my DVD of the 4-hour version and it's a great pick me up for Christmas.  I put it in about 7:30 this morning while opening presents for my myself and my little dog Lilly.  She doesn't understand that she can open them herself, but yet if I hadn't blocked off the living room overniht, she would've gotten into the presents while I was sleeping lol.
[* EDITED to correct a typo}

Anybody ever heard of a video music service called "Galaxie" music? After losing Music Choice and then get two totally worthless music services after that, my Cablesystem switched to Galaxie last week.

They at least have an 'Easy Listening' channel and a holidays channel. Too early to see how large/small of a playlist they have and if they're better or worse than the shrinking playlists on the Sirius/XM decades palylists.

Chip, Susan, OGO, Rich, James, Diane, Will Clueless, Jim, Maxx, JMFabianoRPL, and to all the many regular posters on The Yule Log: A Merry Christmas to you all, and I appologize for those I didn't mention specifically by name.

Any chance anybody has a DVD copy of the Yule Log they'd care to share? I would be willing to pay for postage.  Or, if you have the 4 hours on VHS, I'll do the conversion to DVD for you and return your tape with a DVD.

Susan, you did a great job taking photos off of a TV screen - a tricky thing to do, and well done.

Merry Christmas to all; big snowstorm coming to the Ohio valley; just in time to head back to work!

Thank you Johnny,

Merry Christmas to you too.

It was hard taking the pictures of my TV screens because it doesn't do very well in low light or artificial light.  Then after I press the button, it takes about 2 seconds for it to actually take the picture and if I move, things get blurred.  Then, especially on my HDTV, I had the flash covered with my finger, but it still lets some of the flash through and it reflects in the TV.

I hope anyone else who was able to watch it on Antenna TV had better results than I did.  I wasn't expecting commercials and it not fitting the screen.  I did expect it to be in SD being the type of programming that Antenna TV normally shows, was done prior to HDTV and the programs were made in the 4:3 ratio.  WPIX and KWGN were also in SD but they filled the screen and I haven't completely watched KWGN's broadcast because it was on an hour earlier than WPIX in my area, I watched WPIX but did DVR all 3  of them and WPIX went off without a hitch.

Though I can stretch the image to fit the 16:9 ratio it is still SD, but it looks like it's HD so that is all that matters.

Jeff,

I don't know what your local station was, but I had been checking my program guide and for KWGN, they showed Christmas Eve Day a 1-hour broadcast of The Yule Log, then because I am in the Eastern Time Zone, they showed an hour again of The Yule Log and then the 4-hour broadcast.  I asked Chip about it in another thread he had contacted them and explained that the 4-hour broadcast would start with hour 2 then 3 and 4 and finally hour 1 and the 1 hour that was listed before was supposed to be hour 1 but because I wanted the 4-hour broadcast, I haven't watched it yet, but it is supposed to be 2, 3, 4, 1.  But being I haven't watched it yet, except for the first few minutes, I don't know how it turned out.

Here is the link to the thread.  Scroll down to post # 18 and he explains it, but in my guide, instead of it being hours 2, 3 and 4 and then a separate hour 1, my guide had it listed as 4 hours so that is how I DVR'd it.  Not counting the repeated hour 1,  before the 4 hours.

Chip,

I hope this isn't considered Double Posting as I was responding to  Johnny's post, and after I had sent it, I saw the message from Jeff so I wanted to respond to his message and didn't even see Jeff's post until I answered Johnny's post.

Glad you were able to see the program and learn how The Yule Log came to be.

Happy New Year to you too John.