So make a cup of tea, put a few hours aside and start working your way through our collection below of recommended sites! (To suggest a site to be added to this list, click here to contact us.)
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MeTV | A sizable site based in Ireland. Also incorporates a addiitonal theme mini-site, JoTV. |
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Mark's TV Themes | Another of our great sources! Over a thousand themes available by email request. |
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TV Cream | another fantastically nostalgic trip through the years of UK TV. |
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Sound America | Another HUGE source of US themes and other sound-clips. The site itself is actually now defunct but most of the downloads are still there! |
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Earth Station 1 | more obscure American themes (at least I think they're American...I've not even heard of half the shows!) |
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WaveThemes | Massive email request archive of 8,000+ themes from American collector Ed Jones. |
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SausageNet | brings you cult and classic television, childrens programmes, cartoons, memories and nostalgia |
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TVHome | A huge collection of TV Idents (the bits between the programmes that show off the station logos etc!) Also includes a small collection of themes |
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TV Ark | themes, video clips and general nostalgia |
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Sitcoms Online | Over 1,000 American and UK sitcom themes to download |
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Them Toons | A trip down memory lane, told in TV Themes |
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TV Theme World | Killajam's new-look site full of themes. |
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Whirligig | 1950's British Television Nostalgia and themes |
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TV Timewarp | TV-related website that has midi theme tunes and TV Video Intros for download. |
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Network News Music | American News themes anyone?! |
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tvmusic.topcities.com | and a few extra themes plus tv logos |
| Bestwavs.com | Short selection of American TV Themes |
| Little Gems | Classic UK themes together with some great images |
| TV Junkie | the best (only?!) site for German TV themes |
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| OTHER TV-RELATED SITES (NON-THEME)... |
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Watched It! | the best Childrens TV nostalgia site I've found so far! |
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Memorable TV | Detailed cast, production and episode information for hundreds of TV shows! |
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TV Heaven Mail List | discuss retro TV via your email inbox |
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| TV ADVERT-RELATED... |
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Commercial Breaks and Beat | A comprehensive guide to the music used in TV adverts |
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Ad Watch | A video archive of the best UK TV adverts to download |
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visit4info - Cool Ads | Another huge video archive, including the latest ads |
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What's That Tune? | Up-to-date UK advert listings |
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What's That Called? | Another UK advert listings |
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Andy Savage's Favourite TV Adverts
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TV Ad Music | More listings for music and voice-over artists from the UK TV ads |
| UK TV Adverts.com | Another great site - particularly good for voice-over info.
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Sounds Familiar | More advert listings |
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Song Title.info | Advert listings for American commercials |
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| RADIO JINGLES - PRODUCERS... |
| JAM Creative Productions | The World's biggest jingle producers |
| TM Century | another formidable US producer |
| Bespoke Music Company | UK Company behind the Real Radio jingle series |
| Music4 | Loads of Capital FM and modern Radio One stuff here |
| Steve England Jingles | The UK's Jingle God! |
| Groove Jingles | Producers of current Radio Two packages |
| IQ Beats | Current producers of packages for the Century FM network and LBC amongst others. |
| S2Blue | newly created company - recently creators of Daryl Denham's Virgin cuts |
| Dave Langer Creative Productions | More UK jingles from Dave and Co. |
| Thompson Creative | Another US powerhouse |
| Pam Productions | Those 60s-style high-harmony Dallas boys |
| Johnny Mann Singers | Producers of famous classic US jingles |
| The Jingle Bank | a division of TM Century |
| Top Format Jingles | Netherlands-based producers |
| Archer and Valerie Productions | specialists in stupid jingles! |
| ReelWorld | producers of the latest packages for Key 103 and Kiss London. |
| GMI Media | |
| FM Jock | jingles and morning show cuts for UK stations |
| Jingle Network | Dutch jingle producers |
| blueFO / AJ Productions | New York based producers of the latest Virgin 1215 package |
| Cue Creative | another big Dutch production house |
| Devaweb | Yorkshire-based producers |
| Production Park | more UK-based stuff, this time from out of Darwen, Lancs. |
| Jingle House | IDs from Down Under |
| Josselyn Jingles | Jingle Production and Advertising Music |
| Sharp Sell | packages include some great parody songs |
| jamXmusic | German producers |
| Air Talent Online | UK producer, home to "Voiceover Man" Peter Dickson |
| GloboTracks | UK-based imaging company |
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| RADIO JINGLES - COLLECTORS... |
| JingleMad.com | Fast growing site for collectors to download as well as, uniquely, upload their own collections for others to share |
| Jingle Freaks.com | Great US jingle collector |
| The Jingle Site | jingles and more from David Hemsley |
| Pete Wilson's Jingles Page | Jingle enthusiast with some Radio One downloads |
| Geoff Barton's Radio IDs montages | Geoff has a number of mixes and montages to download |
| Active Radio | hundreds of cuts to download from around the World |
| Steve's Radio and Railroads | large collection of PAMS jingles |
| Reel Radio | preserving great old US airchecks |
| Jingleweb.com | Dutch-based collectors site. A great place to get in touch with fellow collectors to arrange trades |
| Cubwolf | various downloads from UK stations |
| Jingle University | Everything that is Radio Anorak-like is here! |
| Radio Rewind | the Unofficial History of BBC Radio 1, including jingle downloads. |
| Norman Barrington's Radio Page | focussing on Offshore stations |
| Irish Pirates | The Irish Pirate Stations of the early '80's |
| Mike Lownds' site | more jingle downloads plus collection lists. |
| Al Cale's site | more jingles plus in-depth info on Midland's stations BRMB and ill-fated Buzz FM |
| Phil England's site | jingle downloads plus links to more cool jingles sites |
| 194 Radio City | dedicated to memories and jingles from the Liverpool station |
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| GENERAL RADIO-RELATED... |
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Radio Now | News and listings site for UK radio, including an online listening directory. |
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UKOnAir Forums | Fantastic forums to talk anything radio-related |
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Media UK - Radio | Directory of UK radio stations and presenters. |
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Radio Feeds UK | The Internet's most up-to-date list of UK radio stations simultaneously broadcasting on the web. |
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This is ILR | an unofficial look at the history of Independent Radio in the UK |
Fabulous though it is (!), the Tellytunes website merely scratches the surface of a world of TV, radio and jingle nostalgia out there online!
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