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Merry Christmas: Holiday Greetings, 'Yule Log' and Festive Music

From the Patch family to yours, warmest wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season.

By Elissa Bass

Those who grew up in the late 1960s and '70s anywhere that picked up WPIX-TV out of New York City, then you certainly remember the Yule Log.

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Video of the roaring fire in the fireplace would begin airing on Christmas Eve and stay on right through Christmas Day.

According to Wikipedia, "The Yule Log was created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, President and CEO of WPIX, Inc." [Interesting for metro Atlantan, WPIX refers to itself as "11 Alive," the same moniker for our own WXIA-TV]

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We thought it would be fun to revive this Christmas memory.

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