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| '''NORAD Tracks Santa''' is an annual ]-themed entertainment program, which has existed since 1955,<ref name="noradsanta-why">{{cite web | url=http://www.noradsanta.org/en/whytrack.html | title=Why we track Santa | work=Noradsanta.org | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20111224184358/http://www.noradsanta.org/en/whytrack.html | archivedate=December 24, 2011}}</ref> produced under the auspices of the ] (NORAD). Every year on ], "NORAD Tracks Santa" purports to track ] as he leaves the ] and delivers presents to children around the world. | |||
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| The program is in the tradition of the September 1897 editorial "]" in the '']''.<ref name="tobey-isthere">{{cite web | url=http://tobey.com/santa/english/istheresanta.html | title=Is There a Santa Claus? | publisher=NORAD ''via'' Tobey.com | date=December 2009 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref> | |||
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| ==History and overview== | |||
| ] ad with the misprinted telephone number that led to the NORAD Tracks Santa Program]] | |||
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| The program began on December 24, 1955, when a ] department store placed an advertisement in a ] newspaper which told children that they could telephone ] and included a number for them to call. However, the telephone number printed was misprinted and calls instead came through to Colorado Springs' Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center. Colonel Harry Shoup, who was on duty that night, told his staff to give all children who called in a "current location" for Santa Claus. A tradition began which continued when the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) replaced CONAD in 1958.<ref name="norad-santa">{{cite web | url=http://www.norad.mil/about/Santa.html | title=NORAD Tracks Santa | work=NORAD.mil | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20091224050527/http://www.norad.mil/about/Santa.html | archivedate=December 24, 2009}}</ref> | |||
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| Today, NORAD relies on volunteers to make the program possible.<ref name="cnn20091224">{{cite news | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/24/cnet.norad.santa.tracker/ | title=Behind the scenes: NORAD's Santa tracker | work=CNN.com | first=Daniel | last=Terdiman | date=December 24, 2009 | accessdate=December 26, 2009}}</ref> Each volunteer handles about forty telephone calls per hour, and the team typically handles more than 12,000 e-mails and more than 70,000 telephone calls from more than two hundred countries and territories. Most of these contacts happen during the twenty-five hours from 2 a.m. on December 24 until 3 a.m. ] on December 25.<ref name="norad-santa"/><ref name="cnn20091224"/> ] has been in use since December 2007 to analyze traffic at the NORAD Tracks Santa ]. As a result of this analysis information, the program can project and scale volunteer staffing, telephone equipment, and computer equipment needs for Christmas Eve.<ref name="analytics20081209">{{cite web | url=http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/12/norads-santa-tracking-website.html | title=Santa Tracking with NORAD and Google Analytics | publisher=Google Analytics | first=Jeff | last=Gillis | date=December 9, 2008 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref> Volunteers include NORAD military and civilian personnel.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/norads-santa-trackers-break-own-records-for-calls-emails-facebook-and-twitter-followers/2011/12/29/gIQABIJFPP_story.html |title=NORAD's Santa trackers break own records for calls, emails, Facebook and Twitter followers |work=Associated Press ''via'' The Washington Post |date=December 29, 2011 |accessdate=January 1, 2012}}</ref> | |||
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| {{as of|2011|12|30}}, the NORAD Tracks Santa program had 101,000 ] followers and the ] page had nearly one million fans.<ref name="zzz">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080381/Norad-Tracks-Santa-breaks-records-million-Facebook-followers-102-000-phone-calls-7-720-emails.html |title=One million Facebook followers, 102,000 phone calls and 7,720 emails: How this year's defence department Santa-tracking operation broke all records |work=The Daily Mail |first=Graham |last=Smith |date=December 30, 2011 |accessdate=January 3, 2012}}</ref> | |||
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| The NORAD Tracks Santa program has always made use of a variety of ]. From the 1950s to 1996, these were the ] ], ]s, ], ] and ]. Many television newscasts in North America feature NORAD Tracks Santa as part of their ] on Christmas Eve. | |||
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| From 1997 to the present, the program has had a highly publicized ] presence. As ] and ] have become popular and widespread as methods of direct communication, these newer media have also been embraced by the program.<ref name="networkcomputing">{{cite web | url=http://www.networkcomputing.com/security/norad-deploys-network-for-watching-santa.php | title=NORAD Deploys Network For Watching Santa | work=Network Computing | first=Curt | last=Franklin | date=December 24, 2009 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="mashable20100208">{{cite web | url=http://mashable.com/2010/02/08/communication-social-media/ | title=5 Levels of Effective Communication in the Social Media Age | work=Mashable.com | first=Soren | last=Gordhamer | date=February 8, 2010 | accessdate=February 10, 2010}}</ref> The layout of the NORAD Tracks Santa ] and its ]s have changed from 1997 to the present due to changes in ] technologies, and changes in partners and ] for a particular year. | |||
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| Between 2004 and 2009, people who visited the NORAD Tracks Santa site were told they could "track" Santa in ].<ref name="norad-track3d">{{cite web | url=http://www.noradsanta.org/en/track3d.html | title=Track Santa in Google Earth | work=Noradsanta.org | accessdate=December 24, 2011}}</ref> They were given a link to download Google Earth, and then a ] file to download. From 2009-2011, the tracking in Google Earth has been done from the NORAD Santa site, and there is no KMZ file for Google Earth anymore.<ref name="googlegeodev20091223">{{cite web | url=http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-year-santa-is-totally-plugged-in.html | title=This year, Santa is totally plugged in | work=Google Geo Developers | last=Martin | first=Jeffery | date=December 23, 2009 | accessdate=December 24, 2011}}</ref> In 2011, an ] and ] application was introduced, which features updates and an interactive game similar to '']''.<ref name="boston20111222">{{cite web | url=http://articles.boston.com/2011-12-22/business/30547599_1_norad-tracks-santa-volunteers-answer-santa-trackers | title=NORAD Santa trackers stand by for another big day | work=Boston Globe | first=Dan | last=Elliott | date=December 22, 2011 | accessdate=December 24, 2011}}</ref> | |||
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| From mid-January until November 30, when one arrives at the NORAD Tracks Santa website, one is greeted with a message to come back on December 1 to "track Santa with NORAD". During December, one finds a NORAD Tracks Santa website with all the features available. On ], the NORAD Tracks Santa website videos page is generally updated each hour, when it is midnight in a different ]. The "Santa Cam" videos show ] images of Santa Claus flying over famous landmarks. Each video was accompanied by a ] until the end of the 2011 season, typically done by NORAD personnel, giving a few facts about the city or country depicted.<ref name="seland20091223">{{cite web | url=http://searchengineland.com/santa-tracking-for-christmas-eve-2009-32427 | title=From NORAD Santa Tracker To Twitter: Santa Tracking For Christmas Eve 2009 | work=Search Engine Land | first=Danny | last=Sullivan | date=December 23, 2009 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref> Celebrity voice-overs have also been used over the years. For the ] "Santa Cam" video, English television personality and celebrity ] did the voice-over for 2005 to 2007 and the former ] drummer ] narrated the same video in 2003 and 2004.<ref name="afmil20031202">{{cite news | url=http://www.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?id=123006125 | title='Starr' helps NORAD track Santa | work=AF.mil | first=Michael | last=Phillips | date=December 2, 2003 | accessdate=December 31, 2009|archiveurl=http://archive.is/Gg1u|archivedate=December 12, 2012}}</ref><ref name="skynews20071224">{{cite web | url=http://news.sky.com/home/article/1298341 | title=NORAD Missile Agency Tracks Santa By Satellite | work=Sky News | date=December 24, 2007 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref> In 2002, ] provided the voice-over for three videos.<ref name="yahoomusic20021125">{{cite web | url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/aaron-carter/news/aaron-carter-named-norads-honorary-santa-tracker--12059763 | title=Aaron Carter Named NORAD's Honorary Santa Tracker | work=Yahoo! News | date=November 25, 2002 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref> | |||
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| For Christmas 2013, NORAD contracted with ] to provide 2D map tracking, ending a five-year contract with Google.<ref name="verge20131219">{{cite news |url=http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/19/3783408/google-santa-tracker-on-despite-norad-switch-to-bing |title=Google keeps tracking Santa despite NORAD's switch to Bing |work=The Verge |first=Jeff |last=Blagdon |date=December 19, 2013 |accessdate=December 24, 2013}}</ref> | |||
| The locations and landmarks depicted in some of the "Santa Cam" videos have changed over the years. In 2009, twenty-nine "Santa Cam" videos were posted on the website. In previous years, twenty-four to twenty-six videos had been posted. | |||
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| ==Sponsorship and publicity== | |||
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| NORAD Tracks Santa relies on ], and is financed by neither American nor Canadian taxpayers.<ref name="airman200012">{{cite news | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBP/is_12_44/ai_68507673/ | title=Santa Trackers.Org | work=Airman Magazine | first=John B | last=Dendy | date=December 2000 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="cnn20091224" /><ref name="gazette20071224">{{cite web | url=http://www.gazette.com/news/santa-31212-command-tracking.html | title=NORAD will track Santa's trip | work=The Gazette (Colorado Springs) | first=Tom | last=Roeder | date=December 24, 2007 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref> | |||
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| U.S. military units that have provided publicity for the program include the ] of the ] and the ] Navy Information Bureau (NIB) 1118 at ], ].<ref name="nydmna20071221">{{cite web | url=http://dmna.state.ny.us/news/news.php?id=1207921850 | title=New York Guardsmen Lend Help to Track Santa’s Flight Path | work=New York State Division of Military & Naval Affairs | first=Brooke | last=Davis | date=December 21, 2007 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="navymil20021224">{{cite web | url=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=5201 | title=Naval Reservists Support NORAD’s Annual Tracks Santa Project | work=Navy.mil |first1=Eric |last1=Brian |first2=Darin |last2=Arnold | date=December 24, 2002 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref> Other U.S. federal agencies, such as ] and ], have helped publicize the service,<ref name="spaceref20001218">{{cite web | url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3379 | title=NOAA to Aid NORAD in Tracking Santa Claus | work=NOAA.gov ''via'' Spaceref.com | date=December 18, 2000 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="nasa20021220">{{cite web | url=http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=4004 | title=NASA to Track Santa | work=NASA.gov |first1=Kyle |last1=Herring |first2=Eileen |last2=Hawley | date=December 20, 2002 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="nasapr20061221">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/releases/2006/release-20061221b_prt.htm | title=NASA's KSC Providing Assistance to Santa on Christmas Eve | work=NASA.gov | first=George | last=Diller | date=December 21, 2006 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="nasagoddard20091219">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/norad_santa.html | title=NORAD Tracks Santa Update | work=NASA.gov | first=Tom | last=Wrublewski | date=December 19, 2008 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="itwire20061223">{{cite web | url=http://www.itwire.com/science-news/space/8268-norad-and-nasa-help-santa-claus-deliver-toys-to-children | title=NORAD and NASA Help Santa Claus Deliver Toys to Children | work=iTWire | first=William | last=Atkins | date=December 23, 2006 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref> as have the ].<ref name="mapleleaf20071212-1">{{cite web | url=http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/Commun/ml-fe/article-eng.asp?id=3985 | title=NORAD getting ready to track Santa | work=The Maple Leaf | first=David | last=Lavallee | date=December 12, 2007 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="mapleleaf20071212-2">{{cite web | url=http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/Commun/ml-fe/article-eng.asp?id=3987 | title=Land force ready to help too | work=The Maple Leaf | first=Alexandre | last=Munoz | date=December 12, 2007 | accessdate=December 31, 2009}}</ref><ref name="webwire20051214">{{cite news | url=http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=6934 | title=Canadian institutions keep us believing in Santa, says Queen’s researcher | work=Webwire.com | date=December 14, 2005 | accessdate=December 26, 2011}}</ref> ] ] participated in the 2011 and 2012 trackings, answering phone calls.<ref name="suntimes20111224">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/12/michelle_obama_takes_kids_call.html |title=Michelle Obama takes kids calls Christmas Eve as NORAD tracks Santa |work=Chicago Sun Times |first=Lynn |last=Sweet |date=December 24, 2011 |accessdate=December 25, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/norad-tracks-santa-travels-world-article-1.1227234 |title=NORAD tracks Santa's path as he makes his holiday rounds |work=] |author=Associated Press |date=December 25, 2012 |accessdate=December 28, 2012}}</ref> | |||
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| According to Gerry Bowler, a history professor at the ], the NORAD Tracks Santa program is "one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa Claus story that have stuck." Bowler stated that the program "takes an essential element of the Santa Claus story — his travels on Christmas Eve — and looks at it through a technological lens," therefore bringing the Santa Claus mythology into the modern era.<ref name="AP-Elliott-2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40803123/ns/us_news-life/ |title=Secret Santa helper: First lady pitches in with NORAD |work=Associated Press ''via'' MSNBC |first=Dan |last=Elliott |date=December 24, 2010 |accessdate=May 30, 2011}}</ref> | |||
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