Several folks have informed me that the word "Chanukah" is indeed edited out of the Yogi Bear DVD I mentioned.
To clarify: I never got an official explanation. When it was done, Hanna-Barbera said, "We had nothing to do with it. The network did it." And the person I dealt with at CBS said, "We didn't do it. Someone at Hanna-Barbera must have done it." I later found out that someone at CBS had ordered the deletion but that doesn't mean H-B didn't agree. It was always my experience when I was working at H-B in those days that the studio rushed to comply with Standards and Practices notes. Many times, I talked the Censor People out of some change they wanted made in a show…and sometimes, it was not difficult at all. But then I'd find out that Bill Hanna had made the alteration anyway.
Can you imagine, by the way, the fuss that would be made today if some network bleeped "Christmas" out of a show? Or worse, if they just bleeped the first syllable? Bill O'Reilly and the Fox "News" Network would seize on that one incident as incontrovertible proof of The War on Christmas and the machinations of the Anti-Christian Coalition. As it is, they have to settle for finding some elementary school pageant somewhere and a teacher who asked the kids to say "Season's Greetings" instead of "Merry Christmas."