Hello Trackers!

I send you greetings from North Pole Radio News. We are celebrating a little Christmas in July this week by listening to a radio replay of Tracking Santa Around the World from last Christmas.

Every year millions around the world listen to Kringle Radio, the North Pole Radio station that shares a very special two-day radio broadcast of commercial-free Christmas music interrupted only by occasional news of Santa as he makes his way around the world.

The news begins as Christmas Eve dawns in the far corners of the world in the South Pacific, long before Santa launches.

Our news team has radio reporters stationed at every Regional Tracking Center and in other locations all over the world to gather news, interview eye witnesses of Santa and to discuss the tracking of Santa’s flight.  Here is an example of one such radio news report:

We replay this special two-day program in July for those fans who couldn’t hear it last Christmas.

It is shared as well here on SantaTrackers.net for good training information.

As you listen to it you can hear the part trackers play in Santa’s flight (we interview as many as we can). Using the radio news with the live map from North Pole Flight Command on SantaTrackers.net gives you a tracking experience that is unmatched online.

The broadcast begins this week at 5am EST on July 23rd (matching the time it originally aired on December 23rd of last year). It runs for two full days, documenting every hour of Christmas Eve and Christmas morning around the world.

Elves can hear it via the radio player in the side bar of the Elf Wall once logged in. It will also be available on SantaUpdate.com.

We remind you that we are just hours away from our first Santa Tracker Elf Conference of the year.

This is the first official meeting of elves since Santa announced the tracker recruitment goal for this year. I’m sure you have questions. This will be the time and place to ask them.

The conference is a series of presentations given in Elf Chat by various presenters on topics of interest and training for tracker elves tracking Santa for Santa. You can see the agenda at this link.

We recognize this is coming during a period of normal vacation and “time off ” for many elves. Please do not worry if you cannot attend. Each presentation will be archived and made available for later review.

Each presentation is brief and allows for your questions to be asked and answered. So if you can be there it would be most helpful. If not, we understand. We believe other conferences will be held later in the year.

For the first time ever a special elf chat is scheduled here on SantaTrackers.net as part of the Christmas-in-July celebrations at the North Pole. Sunday, July 11th at 2pm EST in Elf Chat here on SantaTrackers.net a chat will be hosted by Elf Frank Myrrh who will chat with Elf Agent X of North Pole Security.

We have scheduled this event at SantaTrackers.net because the information this discussion will provide is really more for elves than for standard believers.

North Pole Security is tasked with keeping Santa and the North Pole safe. As the North Pole Radio News team has reported over the years it is sometimes a sad reality that Santa faces a variety of threats on Christmas Eve that could slow him down or stop his flight efforts altogether. North Pole Security deals with these situations.

This conversation will be useful to tracker elves. You all need to be aware that these things happen and that you can do your part by reporting on suspicious activity you might hear about in your area.

We invite you to come and be a part of this discussion.

Elf Frank Myrrh tracked down this elf in something called the People Tracking Department at the North Pole. He interviewed him for the latest episode of the Santa Tracker Podcast.

Yeah, I had never heard of it either.

The People Tracking Department is just a small part of the larger Tracking Department at the North Pole. They’re job, according to this dude Frank interviews, is to keep lists of people.

Lots of people. Lots of lists.

Why? Why would Santa allow this to happen?

Well, it’s kind of to help Santa stay organized.

Take for example all the wish lists that Santa receives. All that information goes into a computer so Santa can keep it straight. Imagine just how many wish lists came in for Santa TODAY. Now imagine how many of those people sending in lists today are going to change them between now and Christmas? And how many times will they change it?

That’s kind of what this department does. It keeps track of the “people stuff” related to Santa.

If you think about it the People Tracking Department kind of has an impossible, thankless, endless job!

This is a pretty cool conversation. I’m really liking these new podcasts. They give us a bit more information than we get from the more general North Pole Podcast over at SantaUpdate.com.

It’s good to be a tracker elf!

Elf Frank Myrrh just posted a new podcast episode about the Santa Tracker Tracking Department. This is a very important episode to listen to.

He’s not talking about Santa tracker elves. He’s talking about other Santa trackers out there – places like NORAD and Google Santa Tracker.

Yeah, there’s a whole department that follows other Santa trackers out there.

Why?

Because they get the story of Santa wrong, they mess up the flight details and they give out bad information.

Frank talks this over with Elf Curly Bennion whose job it is to track the trackers. Click here to listen to it.

This is an important thing. A lot of people come here because they want to become elves but then they insist on using these bogus trackers. That doesn’t make them elves. That makes them….something else. This episode goes far to explain that you should only get your tracking data from the North Pole.

Period.

By the way, Elf Frank Myrrh has been one busy podcaster this weekend. I know he’s got several episodes in the pipeline and don’t be surprised if he springs another one on you really soon.

We are pleased to announced the opening of a special photo exhibit titled Scenes from the North Pole. This special collection of photographs has been approved by Santa Claus for public exhibition. It is one of the only times in history where pictures from the real North Pole have ever been shown. The event is planned 5 months before Christmas Eve on July 24th at 2pm EST.

This exhibit will be shared in Elf Chat at SantaTrackers.net. It is an exhibit reserved exclusively for tracker elves working in the service of Santa and is not available to the general public.

The collection will be shared by Elf Ed Zachary, world famous Santa Defender and North Pole journalist, whose work has been featured at The North Pole Gazette, Elf Life, North Pole Daily, SantaUpdate.com, MyMerryChristmas.com and SantaTrackers.net. Mr. Zachary will explain each image as it is shared.

This image was recently taken at the North Pole showcasing the Northern Lights some distance from North Pole Village. This is the first time such an image from the North Pole as been shared.

The collection includes images of reindeer, North Pole landscapes, North Pole buildings and scenes of interest in and around the North Pole. Mr. Zachary is an accomplished photographer and these images are from his personal collection. Each image has been vetted through North Pole Security and the entire exhibit has been personally review by Santa.

We remind you that this exhibit will only be shared via the Elf Chat room at SantaTrackers.net. To participate you must be a registered Santa Tracker Elf, having taken the Elf Oath. These images are NOT to be shared outside the confines of this website and are only for the educational and informational needs of Santa’s elves. We encourage elves who work remotely for Santa to participate in this special event.