Christmas Radio Jingles & Holiday Station IDs for Your Station

Christmas radio jingles are the short seasonal pieces a station plays in the weeks before Christmas and into the New Year: holiday station IDs, sweepers between Christmas songs and greetings from the team. JingleLark is an online AI jingle maker for small radio stations, and it makes these as voiced pieces. It reads your script in one of 24 radio voices and mixes it with an intro, a background bed and an outro from a library of 88 sounds, which includes sleigh bells, a festive bed and a jingle bell tag. You download a finished holiday ID in MP3 or WAV. The jingles are spoken, not sung.

What do voiced Christmas radio jingles sound like?

Here are four holiday pieces for one station, made in JingleLark. They were made for one made-up station, Copper Pines FM, with the same voices, sound library and mixing that every JingleLark account uses. The first one is the Holiday template exactly as the studio fills it in. Each script is under 220 characters, so each voiceover cost one credit. Lengths and loudness were measured on the downloaded files with ffprobe and the EBU R128 meter in FFmpeg on October 5, 2026.

Copper Pines FM is a made-up name used only for these examples. Our first take of the Christmas Eve line came back from a speech-to-text check with an extra word after the station name, so we changed the punctuation and generated it again. Listen to your own take before you mix it.

Which holiday sounds are in the library?

The sound library has a Seasonal group. These are the holiday, New Year and Halloween sounds in it, with the slot each one goes in and its length. They are in the library now: open a slot in the studio, choose Seasonal and pick one. They are mixed into your jingle; they are not downloaded on their own.

From November 15 to January 1 the studio also shows a Holiday template. One click fills in a holiday script, the Johnny Dynamite voice and the three holiday sounds, Sleigh Bells, Holiday Sparkle and Jingle Bell Tag, so you only change the station name. Outside those dates you get the same result by typing the line and picking the three sounds yourself.

Which holiday ID fits your station format?

The holiday sounds are the same for every format. What changes is the line and whether you use the bed.

Pick the voice by ear: you can play all 24 voices in the studio before you generate.

Christmas radio jingle scripts you can use

Sixteen lines to start from, in three groups. Put your station name where it says [Station] and change the rest to fit. Each is well under 220 characters, so each one is a one-credit voiceover.

Warm holiday IDs and greetings

• Holiday ID: "Happy holidays from all of us at [Station] — the sound of the season."
• Sweeper: "Christmas music, all day long. [Station]."
• Short ID: "You're home for Christmas with [Station]."
• Countdown: "Five days to Christmas, and the songs keep coming on [Station]."
• Show promo: "This Christmas Eve on [Station] — the songs you grew up with, from six until midnight."
• Greeting from the team: "From everyone here at [Station], merry Christmas, and thank you for listening."
• Request liner: "Got a Christmas song you want to hear? Send us a request on [Station]."
• New Year ID: "Happy New Year from [Station]. Here's to another year of great music."

Funny Christmas radio jingle scripts

• "Santa checked his list twice. [Station] made it. Barely."
• "No reindeer were harmed in the making of this playlist. [Station]."
• "It's [Station]. Yes, that song again. You know you love it."
• "[Station]. Louder than your uncle at Christmas dinner."

Christmas jingle scripts for church and community stations

• "From our church family to yours, a blessed Christmas. This is [Station]."
• "Join us for the Christmas Eve service, live on [Station]."
• "Peace on earth, and good music on [Station]."
• "Your community station wishes every neighbor a merry Christmas. [Station]."

Length follows the script, at about 13 characters per second, so a short line gives you a short ID. The words are yours: the templates and these lines are a starting point to edit.

For more ID wording and the rules licensed US stations follow, see the station identification guide.

For year-round lines, from sweepers to show tags, see 40 radio jingle script templates.

What does a set of Christmas jingles cost?

In JingleLark each voiceover of up to 220 characters is one credit, and mixing, remixing and downloads do not use credits. Here is one holiday set for a small station and what it uses.

Ten credits fit inside the Starter pack, $14.90 for 50 credits, which leaves 40 for the rest of the year. At that pack's rate the set is about $2.98 of credits. Packs are one-time payments, not a subscription, and purchased credits never expire, so what you do not use in December is still there for next season.

Because mixing is free, one voiceover can become more than one piece: the same holiday line with the Holiday Sparkle bed as an ID, and with only the bells at each end as a sweeper, is one credit, not two. A new account gets one free credit to try a voice first.

Weighing this against a produced package from an imaging company? See AI station imaging vs hiring a voice.

How do you put holiday IDs on air, and take them off?

Every piece downloads as MP3 or WAV. The WAV is converted in your browser from the same mix as the MP3, for playout software that expects WAV files. Put the holiday files in their own category or folder in your playout software, separate from your regular IDs. That way you can switch the whole set on when your Christmas music starts and off on the day you choose, without hunting for single files.

Steps for AzuraCast, RadioDJ, mAirList and PlayIt Live are in our guide to adding jingles to playout software.

Halloween and New Year IDs

Christmas is one of the seasons in the Seasonal group. From October 1 to October 31 the studio shows a Halloween template: one click sets a Halloween line, the Ed voice and the Spooky Chime, Haunted Groove and Ghostly Fade sounds. This is that template as it comes, 9.6 seconds long and measured at -15.0 LUFS:

For New Year, use the Party Horn intro and the Confetti Pop outro with any bed you like, as in the New Year ID above.

Make the rest of your imaging

Holiday IDs are one part of a station's sound. Every element, from IDs to beds, is in the radio imaging guide.

For your year-round ID at different lengths, use the radio station ID maker.

For sweepers and liners between songs, use the radio sweeper generator.

Christmas radio jingles FAQ