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WPIX Yule Log: 1970 The WPIX Yule Log from 1970. WPIX is again airing the Yule Log on Christmas Eve and Christmas. This is the original filmed at Gracie Mansion.

It’s a miracle on 42nd Street. The long-unseen Christmas episode of WPIX/Ch. 11’s beloved “Magic Garden” children series has magically reappeared and will air Christmas Day at 6 p.m. “We’re beyond excited,” says Rolando Pujol, executive producer of digital, who along with licensing producer Joan De Jesus discovered the show in a forgotten sub-basement at the station’s East 42nd St. offices earlier this year. The show originally aired on Dec. 13, 1981. It may have had a re-airing a year or two later, but then it disappeared. It turned up among several hundred vintage WPIX tapes in a long-ignored room,...

AUTHOR’S NOTE #1: I’m running a review of this film today because the film is a Thanksgiving tradition in the New York Tri-State area where I grew up and still live. WPIX Channel 11 has run this film almost every year on Thanksgiving for the past 40 or so years (a notable exception was two years ago, which led to the station receiving many protests – and lo and behold the film was back the very next year, and is on the air again this year, from 9AM to 11AM Thanksgiving morning). -snip REVIEW: Testament to the role this film...

Congressman Rangel Comes Out Swinging on PIX News CloseupMARVIN SCOTT wpix.com 9:42 PM EDT, April 30, 2010 NEW YORK (WPIX) - New York Congressman Charles Rangel put on the gloves for a slugfest with me during the taping for Sunday's PIX News Closeup program. He defended himself against charges of ethics violations, and even challenged my use of the word "charges," insisting he has not been charged with anything but is the victim of "allegations" by newspaper reporters. I asked if he could own up to any of the assertions against him, including the use of a rent stabilized apartment...

The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative Christian group that has fought efforts to legalize in California and in the Northeast, has set its sights on New York with its latest media campaign.Beginning Thursday in the New York City and Albany markets, the organization will run a 30-second television commercial that warns of unanticipated social consequences if the state allows gay couples to marry.Echoing a theme that was used in turning public opinion against same-sex marriage in California in a vote last fall, the commercial suggests that children will be taught about homosexuality in schools.“And it’s not just kids who...