Mark Hodgkinson Web Site

Hi, I'm Mark Hodgkinson from Doncaster, England and what you would call an 'anorak' when it comes to radio jingles. I have collected them from a variety of stations across the world for many years.

If you're also a collector then I'm always open to swaps; either traditionally by exchanging CDRs in the mail, or preferably over the internet by using a file hosting service. I collect jingles in the .wav or .mp3 file format or on CD and concentrate on packages from UK stations; but also have a range of packages from US and European stations.

As well as primarily collecting full packages, I also collect demos from jingle production companies in the UK and other countries plus offshore radio and jingle enthusiast CDs.

If you find something of interest in my collection then please contact me to arrange a swap for something in your collection.

Although I'm interested in the majority of jingles offered to me by other collectors, you can find a list of jingle packages that I'm specifically after here.

To save you time scanning through my extensive listings to find new material, here now follows a list of the 15 most recent additions to my jingle collection with the latest towards the top:

BBC Radio Newcastle & WM - 2004 Music 4 Custom Jingles
BBC Radio Derby - 2002 Bespoke Music Custom Jingles
BBC Radio Derby - 2007 Wise Buddah Custom Jingles
Rádio Atlântida FM - Florianopolis, Brazil - JAM Jingles
Radio Cidade 102.9 FM, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - HLC Killer Music Jingles
Metropolitana, Sao Paulo, Brazil - JAM Jingles
Transamerica, Sao Paulo, Brazil - JAM Jingles
Programme France 2 - 1991 - Jingles De Detente CD
Programme France 2 - 1994 - CDécros 3 CD
Programme France 2 - 1996 - CDécros 4 CD
CBC - 1980 Rockfield Studios Custom Jingles
SAGA 105.7 FM - 2001 Steve England "Lifestyle" Custom Jingles
ALFA 2 - Alfasound Jingles 2 LP
Coca Cola - Die Coke Rolle (Werbespots aus 1991) VHS
Let's Dance With Coke 1989 Vinyl 7"

Wheatley Radio

When trading jingles over the internet I prefer to trade in the waveform audio (.wav) file format for optimum sound quality (where applicable). However, as .wav is a raw and uncompressed file format, files can be very large in size.

To make trading these files easier and to reduce upload and download times, .wav files can be encoded (compressed) using FLAC or Monkeys Audio software, which compresses the .wav file down to a much smaller file size, but without the deterioration in audio quality as with the lossy .mp3 format.

On receipt of these compressed files, the third party can decode the files back to the original .wav format files using the same software. Furthermore, media players such as WinAmp now include codecs to directly play both .flac and .ape files.

Wheatley Radio was Mark Hodgkinson's bedroom radio station in the early 90's, which broadcast to his brothers' bedroom down down the landing. This web page features a selection of archive aircheck recordings and jingles.

If you're looking to find other jingle collectors, or you simply just want to talk to others about jingles then why not check out JingleMad.Com.

In addition to the above, there are many other web sites on the net dedicated to radio jingles - some of them by jingle collectors like me! For a list of links to sites that I have collected over the years please Click Here.

"Hi, Mark! Your very own anorak site....I mean web site. Wow, I am impressed!" - [Stuart Spandler] "Always great to find other like minded people who collect jingles; not many of us about!" - [David Watts] "Nice jingle site!" - [Phil Brown] "Hey Mark !! Well done on the site. It's looking good." - [Neal Bowden] "I'm impressed by your website. Its really looking good." - [Lars Holm] "At last, someone who's a serious jingle collector" - [Stuart Cocker] "Hi Mark. All I can say is Wow!" - [Paul Hughes] "Hi Mark. I've surfed onto your webpage, and was very impressed by your extensive jingles listings" - [Alan Jones] "I am very impressed with the site - very cool - I mean, c'mon, even YOUR picture looks okay!" - [James Gordon] "I got a chance to look at your site tonight and I must say very impressive!!!! The graphic layout and content is very professional and the navigation is easy" - [Kieran Murray] "Hi Mark... I saw your name on the Jingle Web site and headed to your web site - very nice!" - [Ted Tatman] "I just love your funky jingle site - I'd even give it a gold star. Stay dry buddy!" - [Paul Bartley] "Congratulations on producing a well designed and informative site." - [Andrew Cleeves]