Whatever happened to Christmas Tradition?
The other night my family watched the classic, "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown." It was about the same as I remembered from when I first saw it some **cough** 40ish **cough** years ago. Until the commercial break tadvertising the new Christmas Shrek show--on ABC.
ABC?
What the heck is going on? Since I could remember, each US station carried their select stable of Christmas shows. ABC carried a very commercial laden "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," and CBS had "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown," and, of course, "Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer." NBC had Bob Hope specials.
That was Gospel.
In the greater scheme of things, it means nothing to a child, or even a grown-up what channel these shows appear on.
Until it changes.
Somehow a tradition has been violated. It's like, say, moving the big XMAS Tree from Rockerfeller Centre to the NY Public Library. Or, CBC choosing to pass on giving Christmas sing-a-long shows to every musician to come out of the maritimes and you have to tune in to some City-TV's self-programmed junk like Holiday/Fashion-TV, with skinny half-naked models strutting down the catwalks of Milan wearing skimpy Santa suits.
It's just isn't right.
Well,the models might be okay. Fashion is an important part of society.
Luckily, I've embraced the commercialism of the season long ago. With videos and DVD's I can own all these holiday classics and view them at my leisure. But it seeing that ABC logo instead of the CBS eye made me a little sad.
A little older.
That's it. I'm putting that train set back on my Christmas list to Santa!
Mike
posted by Mike Rimar @ 8:20 a.m.
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1 Comments:
The Christmas Classics are my favorite part of the holidays, and the fact that they've been on so many years shows just how timeless they are. Watching Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer still makes me feel like a kid after all these years. I dare say those movies are magical. :)
I do agree with you though about how laden with commercials they are on TV. That's why I'm excited that for the first time I finally have all 7 classics together in the beautifully packaged Christmas Classics DVD box-set! And the bonus music CD is wonderful if I do say so myself. You can buy this keepsake at any store where you buy DVDs, but it’s also available at http://www.christmasclassics.tv. I only know about it because I work with the company. It’s a wonderful gift to yourself, your children and anyone you want to share the magic of Christmas with.
Happy holidays!
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