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It's the end of the month fundraising drive. If you haven't supported SomaFM in the last 12 months, please donate and support us today! 28-Jul-10
All streaming servers are back online. 1:33am Pacific 28-Jul-2010
Some internet backbone issues (Voxel/Level3) have caused some of our streaming servers to go offline. They're working on the issue now. 12:30am Pacific 28-Jul-10
Our servers on the Voxel network is back to normal, Voxel has isolated the problem and we don't expect to see a recurrance. 9:25PM PST 16-Jul-2010
Streams back up but don't have any details on the outage other than it was affecting all Voxel's customers; (Voxel, one of our two main bandwidth providers, is normally super reliable) 1:25PM PST 16-Jul-2010
**OUTAGE** One of our network bandwidth providers is have an outage that is affecting many of our streams. They're working on it! 1:00PM PST 16-Jul-2010
All servers have been updated and all streams are back online. 12:08am 12-Jul-2010
We're doing server updates from 23:00-23:59 on July 11, so there may be some periods when you can't connect. 11-Jul-2010
Due to a problem with some of our stream server logging systems, only about 1/3 of our listeners are being reported for many of our channels. 7-Jul-2010
Our streams are not showing up in the Shoutcast.com directory right now due to a problem with the new Shoutcast.com site. 1-Jul-2010
We are working on adding background streaming to our iPhone application. It will hopefully be available by mid to late July. 24-Jun-2010
Announcing our newest station: Underground Eighties: UK Synthpop and a bit of New Wave. 18-Jun-2010
We have turned off streaming to iPhone/iPod Touch version 1.0 devices, as there was almost no usage of those streams, and we needed to free up some resources. If you were using a first-generation iPhone/Touch then you'll need to update your software to continue to receive SomaFM. 16-Jun-2010
Thank you for your donations to SomaFM during our May fund drive. You make our broadcasts possible! 1-Jun-2010
To all who served their country, and especially to those lost their lives serving, we humbly thank you for your service and sacrifice, and hope for a time in the future where our country will never have to ask for such sacrifices ever again. Memorial Day, 31-May-2010
It's Carnival weekend in San Francisco! 29-May-2010
Historic Apollo 16 mission audio rebroadcast begins Wednesday evening on Mission Control. 26-May-2010
Congratulations to NASA on a successful Space Shuttle STS-132 mission and landing. 26-May-2010
Live Space Shuttle STS-132 Coverage from Launch to Landing on Mission Control ends with the landing this Wednesday morning, May 26th. 26-May-2010
SomaFM has been invited to the NASA Tweetup at the Kennedy Space Center for the launch of Space Shuttle mission STS-132. Follow @SomaFMRusty on Twitter for updates from the Shuttle Launch. 10-May-2010
To all the Moms out there: happy Mother's day! 9-May-2010
Our website was offline early Monday morning due to issues with our network provider. Sorry abou that! 9:45am 3-May-2010
Our phone (415 552-7662) is now working at the new office. 27-Apr-2010
There are still a few copies of Digital Bliss, Volume 2 available as gifts to our supporters. 21-Mar-2010
Last Minute Farewell to SomaFM's old space tonight, if you're near the city, come by from 6-9pm tonight. Details Here 23-Apr-2010
New iPad site launched. If you have an iPad, we've optimized our site for you. 7-Apr-2010
Live Space Shuttle coverage (mixed with ambient) on Mission Control this week. 5-Apr-2010
We are moving to a new location: 2180 Bryant Street, Suite 208, San Francisco, CA 94110 US. Please start using this address immediately as we are in the process of moving out of the old location down the street. 24-Mar-2010
Please introduce your friends to SomaFM and help us grow. We have banners, buttons and badges you can put on your website or blog. 8-March-2010
Our popular Digital Bliss, Volume 2 CD is back in stock as a gift to our supporters at the $40 level. 2-Feb-10
Thanks for your financial support in February. We didn't hit our monthly goal but we came close! 1-Mar-2010
It's Noise Pop Week in San Francisco! Here's some of our picks for the event. 23-Feb-2010
SomaFM congratulates NASA on the successful mission of Space Shuttle STS-130, which landed tonight at 7:20pm pacific time at the Kennedy Space Center after 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles. Welcome Back! 21-Feb-2010
Congratulations to NASA on the successful launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130. We're covering this all week live on Mission Control. 8-Feb-10
We're testing our new "Pop Up" Flash-based player which will work even when you don't have a media player installed. 25-Jan-10
More super-high quality AAC streams are available now for many channels. 24-Jan-10
We're testing a 128k AAC feed of Groove Salad. We think it sounds much better than MP3 streams, and works with iTunes, Winamp and Foobar2000 players. Try it out and let us know what you think. 15-Jan-2010
We're giving the website a little facelift for the new decade. Drop us a note if you notice any formatting or compatibility issues. 9-Jan-10
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. 18-Jan-09
Hope we made the first workweek of the new year more enjoyable. 8-Jan-2010
More server capacity added. We're trying to make sure you don't get any more "Server Full" messages. 6-Jan-2010
Happy New Year! Thank you for making 2009 another successful year for SomaFM. 1-Jan-2010
A big Thank You to all our supporters who helped us meet our budget goals in 2009, and helped us raise almost $2000 more than our goal. Thanks for keeping SomaFM on the air and commercial free! 31-Dec-09
Happy New Year! Both our Holiday Channels will become "Auld lang Syne, All the Time!" at 2AM pacific time (10:00 GMT) when Kiritimati (Christmas Islands) is the first place to celebrate the new year. 30-Dec-09
Hope you have a wonderful holiday. 22-Dec-09
New Stealth Hoodies, black-on-black zip-up heavyweight hoodies now available for our supporters. 6-Dec-09
Happy Hanukkah! 12-Dec-09
Shop at Amazon.com and Support SomaFM: we'll get a 5% commission on what you buy if you use this Amazon.com link. Or use this to shop at Amazon.co.uk 5-Dec-09
(More old news in the news archives.)
