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| Industry | Internet radio |
|---|---|
| Founded | February 2000 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
Key people | Rusty Hodge, Founder |
| Website | SomaFM.com |
SomaFM is an independent Internet-only streaming multi-channel radio station, supported entirely with donations from listeners. SomaFM originally started broadcasting out of founder Rusty Hodge's basement garage in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, as a micropower radio station broadcast at the Burning Man festival in 1999.[1][2][3] The response to the project was sufficiently positive that Rusty Hodge launched it as a full-time internet radio station in February 2000.
SomaFM takes its name from Soma, the "perfect pleasure drug" from Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, and the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, known colloquially as SoMa.[4]
- ^ "Move over, pirate radio from a Bernal Heights garage". June 30, 2004. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- ^ Lasar, Matthew (March 14, 2016). Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium. Praeger. p. 44. ISBN 978-1440832437.
- ^ Myers, Kellen (January 12, 2013). "The RIAA, the DMCA, and the Forgotten Few Webcasters: A Call for Change in Digital Copyright Royalties" (PDF). Federal Communications Law Journal. 61 (2).
- ^ "SomaFM: About Us". somafm.com. Retrieved December 13, 2019.