(20 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado – 24 December 2022
1. Woman answering phone
2. People answering phones UPSOUND (English) volunteer: “NORAD track Santa how can I help you?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Location Unknown – 17 December 2024
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Gen. Case A. Cunningham, U.S. Air Force:
“If you’re in the headquarters on December 24th, it is a very active place in Colorado Springs with over a thousand volunteers that are there working together to both answer phone calls and and do the support to track Santa across the 24 hours."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Location Unknown – 17 December 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Gen. Case A. Cunningham, U.S. Air Force:
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“The origin story is a great one. I think it’s a really fun story. It literally started with a typo. And so in 1955, there was a newspaper ad that was for kids to call Santa, it was run by a department store. And there was a misprint on the number that they provided, and the number was an unlisted number that went into the headquarters in the 24/7 watch.“
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado – 24 December 2022
5. People on headset phones
6. People at a table on phones
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Location Unknown – 17 December 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Gen. Case A. Cunningham, U.S. Air Force:
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“And an Air Force colonel answered the phone and, much to his surprise, found a child on the other end asking about Santa’s whereabouts.”
NORAD TRACKS SANTA
8. STILL art of woman during a phone exchange
9. STILL art of man on red phone
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Location Unknown – 17 December 2024
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Gen. Case A. Cunningham, U.S. Air Force:
“ So that was the beginning of the 69 years that NORAD has been doing this.”
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado – 24 December 2022
11. People at a large table
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Location Unknown – 17 December 2024
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Sommers, volunteer for Santa hotline:
“A call usually goes, ‘You’re on speakerphone,’ normally on the other end. And there’s a parent who is who is encouraging or coaching their kids, you know, to say something, ‘Ask Santa your questions.’”
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado – 24 December 2022
13. Person with headset on
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Location Unknown – 17 December 2024
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Sommers, volunteer for Santa hotline:
“And I’ll tell them where Santa is. And then you may get a little question from someone that is saying, ‘Well, when Santa’s going to go to my house?’ And, ‘Am I on the naughty list or the nice list?’ All the kids I’ve ever had have always been on the nice list.”
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado – 24 December 2022
15. Person on headset phone
16. Woman on phone
17. Wide of people in tracking room
STORYLINE:
It’s a Christmas tradition that’s become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he and his reindeer swoop across the earth’s meridians, delivering presents and defying time.
Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to ask about the sleigh’s whereabouts. Millions more follow online in nine languages, from English to Japanese.
Production by Ty ONeil
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