In 2003, Tribune Broadcasting — then the owner of WPIX — announced that in addition to being broadcast in New York City, "The Yule Log" would air on television stations that the company owns in other U.S. television markets, and would be remastered for broadcast in high definition. The program made its national debut in 2004 on Tribune flagship station WGN-TV in Chicago and its companion cable channel, Superstation WGN (now WGN America, at the time serving as WGN-TV's superstation feed).