Please support SomaFM!

We need this to balance monthly operating budget in 2009, which is largely our server operations, bandwidth and music royalty costs. Please support SomaFM and keep independent internet radio on the air!

SomaFM accepts Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express online; or you can send a check or money order drawn on US Dollars.

Donate any amount!

 Your support of any amount helps us stay on the air, providing commercial-free music that can't be found anywhere else. You can donate as little as $1 or as much as you'd like. Donating $10-$20 really, really helps us!  

T-shirts, Mugs and other Premiums

We have several premiums available to our supporters:

Automatic Monthly Subscription

A simple, effective way to support SomaFM is through an automatic monthly subscription. You can cancel it at any time, and you can support us with as little as $1 a month. Considering that satellite and other internet music services charge between $7.99-15.99 a month, don't you think SomaFM is worth it?

Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time (details), and there is no minimum subscription duration.

By Mail

You can also send us a donation in the mail. If you are sending a check, please make sure it is drawn on a US bank in US dollars. You can also send an international postal money order. (You can send cash at your own risk.)

Please be sure to include your address if you're requesting a shirt or stickers. And for shirt orders, please include the size and color shirt you want. Send it to:

SomaFM
1890 Bryant Street, Ste 303
San Francisco, CA 94110 US

Fundraising Update

To meet our monthly budget, we need to raise $890 a day for the next 28 days. So far today we've raised $1,189, and for the month $5,324. We still need to raise $24,675 more by the end of the month.

We rely on you for support!

If you value SomaFM and the music we play, please support us. We operate on a voluntary subscription model to ensure that no one is left out: we don't want to exclude someone who wants to listen but can't afford to support us financially. But if you can afford to support us, we're counting on you to do just that.

Less than 10% of our listeners support us financially. Other internet radio stations make lots of money playing 5-10 minutes of annoying commercials each hour, but that really detracts from the music we play. Instead, we struggle to pay our bills and break even. If you think about all the great music you get to hear on SomaFM, doesn't $4.20 a month or $50 a year seem like a great deal?

We could start playing commercials, but that would mean 3-5 minutes of commercials every hour, and we think that would really ruin the vibe of the music.

We have always and will continue to operate on a sustainable financial model with no outside investors or venture capitalists to answer to, allowing us to be truly independent internet radio. Making a great radio station that you can count on is more important to us than making money, not the other way around (like most other radio stations).

(Financial support of SomaFM is not tax-deductible.)

Thanks for your support,

Rusty Hodge
Program Director and General Manager


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