{"id":47657,"date":"2022-12-23T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=47657"},"modified":"2022-12-23T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T21:52:33","slug":"watch-its-a-wonderful-life-saturday-december-24-8pm-on-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/23\/watch-its-a-wonderful-life-saturday-december-24-8pm-on-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8220;It\u2019s a Wonderful Life&#8221; Saturday, December 24 @ 8PM on NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47659\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/its-a-wonderful-life.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/its-a-wonderful-life.webp 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/its-a-wonderful-life-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/>There are a couple of Christmas movies that are a little more traditional than &#8220;<em>Die Hard<\/em>.&#8221; Because the copyright ran out on the movie &#8220;<strong><em>It\u2019s a Wonderful Life,<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; it was shown repeatedly throughout the season until the copyright owner of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">story<\/span> claimed the movie could not be deemed &#8220;public domain,&#8221; which prevented TV stations from airing the movie without paying a fee. 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