TORONTO – World Fishing Network is giving every Canadian a live tank of fish on Christmas morning. But there’s no need to feed these fish or to clean the tank.
The famous Christmas Day Yule Log, familiar to millions of television viewers in the United States and Canada (Shaw Cable has often run a burning fire as its community TV programming over Christmas), is burning up – because now, there’s some competition, WFN said today.
The network will air six uninterrupted hours of a colorful “Festive Fish Tank”, complete with Christmas carols, starting a new tradition on Christmas morning beginning at 6 am ET. The programming will run free of commercials.
It’s for those who’d rather watch the hypnotic, relaxing beauty of an aquarium instead of a burning log, says the release.
The programming features six straight hours of the soothing site of a real, 250-gallon salt water aquarium (pictured), complete with colorful tropical fish, including the Naso, Puffer (nicknamed “Puff Daddy”), Yellow Tang (“Buttercup”), Purple Tang (ironically named “Blue”) and Fox Face (“Foxy Lady”).
The production is backed by instrumental Christmas music.
The Yule Log was created in 1966 by New York television station WPIX-TV Channel 11, as a gift to those New Yorkers who lived in apartments and homes without fireplaces. The programming idea was renewed after Sept. 11, 2001 and gained popularity again as other U.S. networks found it to be successful programming. WGN-TV aired it nationally in 2003. In Canada, CHUM Television ran its own version on its networks in 2004.
The special morning launches a marathon day of unique programming on the Insight Sports-owned digital channel.
