This year Christmas is brought to you by --

• Segway and Sonic Drive-Ins, sponsoring part of Oklahoma City's Downtown in December Festival, featuring Santa on a Segway.
• McDonald's and Verizon Wireless, sponsoring a massive light display in Virginia Beach, which includes a surfing Santa.
• Avera, a local health care system, sponsoring the Avera Parade of Lights in Sioux City, featuring a 60-foot Christmas tree.

A commercial Christmas is nothing new. It was an ad agency for Montgomery Ward that invented Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.