Too cool! 
Just search “Fireplace for your home”. It’s has two “episodes” to choose from; one with yule tide music and the other with out.
A friend of the family once built her dream house and made sure every room had a TV. One of her main reasons: so that each one could be set to play a VHS tape of a fireplace.
(And for the record, this is one of the less-weird things she did. )
As for Netflix, I got a chuckle when I looked at this. The first two reviews are marked “Spoiler Alert” because they reveal that you watch a log burn.
Yes, this is one of my top-rated films. A must see! Two thumbs up.
Corner Gas had Lacey remember the magical times of Christmas when small, staring endlessly at a burning log on a TV.
Still, Corner Gas used situations from older sitcoms as homage quite a lot, so perhaps it had been done before.
Suggested Because you watched Fireplace for Your Home:
Melted Flesh ER’s - 3rd degree Burn Victims
Happy Sweepington’s Magical Chimney Time Adventure
Backdraft
Thanks for posting this.
Unless I was mislead the yule log on TV originated on a TV station local to where I grew up, and my family often turned on channel 9 (WWOR) to have it on even though we had a real fire place.
More recently our cable company had a few crackling fire options in the On Demand menu, but I cancelled cable a few months ago. We’re all streaming now.
It might seem like a small thing to you but you just improved my Christmas season.
cheers.
Back a few decades ago, I heard about a cable company that had cleared a spot in their line-up in preparation for the soon-to-arrive Sci-Fi Network. Rather than have a dead channel between the end of the old and the start of the new, they pointed a camera at a fish tank and aired that. When SciFi did finally arrive, they got so many complaints asking for the Fish Channel back that they had to cancel another channel to make room for it.
Funny! Too bad it doesn’t have heat!
Last year, the Saskatchewan Roughriders got two new jumbo trim displays for their stadium -essentially huge tv screens that can be seen from outside the stadium.
In early December, they set both to show a burning fireplace.
Then the calls started coming in to the 911 line. People were calling to report they could smell wood smoke. After a few trips by the fire department to the area, the 911 operators were reminding people that it was just a tv screen, not a real fire. People got upset and said they weren’t stupid - they could smell wood smoke!
So the stadium turned off the screens.
The 911 calls reporting wood fires stopped.
I could have sworn it was on WPIX.
It was on WPIX, and the original Yule Log was filmed at Gracie Mansion.
BTW, in February, the Norwegian state broadcaster aired a 12-hour long program about firewood. “National Firewood Night”, with eight hours showing a log fire in a fireplace. Thousands of Norwegians watched.
Yes. You are right. And I even knew that when I posted. I had WWOR on the brain yesterday because I was searching the internet for a vidoe of Channel 9’s holiday break clips where glassy eyed children of camera operators and segment producers would sit in a big sleigh in their fancy winter clothes, look vaguely past the camera and tell us that their family and the whole Channel 9 family wish us a Merry Christmas.