On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens ... a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010. Ad campaigns or movies try to “kidnap” Santa for commercial purposes, said Bowler ...
As NORAD counts down to Santa's big night, its Tracking Santa website is ... when a local Sears store in Colorado Springs printed a newspaper ad that invited kids to call a certain phone number ...
encouraging children to call Santa. The ad misprinted the phone number, with the command center’s number instead. Hundreds of kids called that same night, creating a yearly holiday tradition.