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==The Nordic Julekalender/Julkalender==
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In Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, there is a tradition of having a  ''Julekalender'' (Swedish: ''Julkalender'', Finnish: ''Joulukalenteri'', Icelandic: ''Jóladagatal''; the local word for a [[Yule]]—or Christmas—calendar) in the form of a television or radio show, starting on December 1 and ending on Christmas Eve (December 24).

The first such show aired on radio in 1957 in the form of the Swedish radio series ''[[Barnens adventskalender]]''. The first televised show of the genre aired in 1960 in the form of the Swedish program ''[[Titteliture]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sr.se/barn/jul50/bakgrund.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210121106/http://www.sr.se/barn/jul50/bakgrund.stm |archive-date=December 10, 2007 |title=Julkalendern 50 år - Bakgrund |date=December 10, 2007 |access-date=December 9, 2011}}</ref> The first ''julekalender'' aired in Denmark was ''Historier fra hele verden'' in 1962. The televised ''julkalender'' or ''julekalendar'' has now extended into the other [[Nordic countries]]. In Finland, for example, the show is called ''Joulukalenteri''.

Over the years, there have been several kinds of ''julekalender''. Some are directed at children, some at both children and adults, and some directed at adults alone. There is a ''Julkalender'' radio show in Sweden, which airs in the days leading up to Christmas. A classic example of a ''julekalender'' enjoyed by children, as well as adults, if purely for nostalgic reasons, is the 1979 Norwegian television show ''[[Jul i Skomakergata]]''. Another is the 1990 Icelandic television show ''[[Á baðkari til Betlehem]]''.