Man, Bah-humbug to you! Where is your christmas spirit? Anyways, it's just like dancing with the stars or american idol -- where you wait for the last minute to see what you've been waiting for.

And number three, that bothers me too. I remember years ago they would have multicolored lights and maybe a blueish majority or more white then colored. I think after 9-11 they desided they need to do red-white-blue or just white because I can't remember the last colored lights they had.

I like how they do it, kind of... The singing of songs is great, but the way they are sung are terrible. Plus every year they show the tree for about 4 seconds because they ran over. Why not light the tree FIRST and sing songs with the tree in the background. It will be like the F-You Log.

Its painful.. Same damn thing every year. A million idiots cram the streets. They shut down traffic in Rush hour causing insane gridlock in all directions AND THE TREE LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME WAY IT LOOKED LAST YEAR AND THE YEAR BEFORE THAT ETC ETC ETC

WNBC started its coverage at 5pm with the local newscast.. Thank god commonsense people watch WABC...

Joel, your article cracked me up. I avoid these shows (and just about anything with Al Roker) like the plague.