diff --git a/sickbeard/webapi.py b/sickbeard/webapi.py
index c3c0eba0edd92afbd5ba2dc612b0f58168a113a8..65bbb7d33327fc404bd08543c3508c77a3e83cdb 100644
--- a/sickbeard/webapi.py
+++ b/sickbeard/webapi.py
@@ -1338,7 +1338,6 @@ class CMD_Logs(ApiCall):
 
         for x in reversed(data):
 
-            x = x.decode('utf-8')
             match = re.match(regex, x)
 
             if match: