Talk:SomaFM

message: Can anyone list the 12 channels that were active in 2002? The article coincidentally lists 12 channels, but I don't know if they're the old channels restored (doubtful), or contain new channels (likely). It would be interesting to have a "retired channels" section. --MinorContributor 20:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I guess I found some of them via the internet archive , but that's still only nine channels. --MinorContributor 19:51, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: SomaFM January 2002 lineup: Groove Salad, Secret Agent, Drone Zone, Squidradio Downtempo, Squidradio drum'n'bass, Soma House Party, Cliqhop.  The May 2002 Lineup: Groove Salad, Secret Agent, Drone Zone, Squidradio Downtempo, Squidradio drum'n'bass, Soma House Party, Indie Pop Rocks, Cliqhop, Beat Blender, We Are Electro (Trial channel), Jazz Masterz (Trial channel).  When SomaFM officially re-launched on November 30, 2002, it was with the following channels: Groove Salad, Secret Agent, Drone Zone, Indie Pop Rocks, Beat Blender, Cliqhop 76.191.139.200 (talk) 22:45, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  12 channels in 2002? 

message: I've marked the article to be checked for neutrality, primarily as a result of some of the statements in the "Conflict with the RIAA" section. Reading the snippet, "designed – in the opinion of many online broadcasters – to drive those broadcasters out of business", it paints the RIAA as a sort of menace. Additional parts, such as the apparent claim that Hodge himself is responsible for the Small Broadcasters Amendment Act, even if true, are completely unsubstantiated. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 18:57, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tagged the "in the opinion of many online broadcasters" for WP:WEASEL.  The sentence can almost certainly be reworded more neutrally.  I also took out the wording that implied cause-and-effect with the Small Broadcasters Amendment.  Anything else to be addressed regarding neutrality? SlubGlub (talk) 18:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

text: Added references to the testimony here, and corrected some things that the references contradicted. 76.191.139.200 (talk) 02:21, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: This article is acting as a coatrack on the subject of disputes between RIAA and Internet broadcasters over royalty rates.  It is also, somewhat, a coatrack on the subject of Rusty Hodge rather than SomaFM, but that's not as egregious.  The "Conflict with RIAA" stuff should, in my opinion, (1) be scaled way back, (2) be integrated into the History section rather than separate from it, (3) moved to a more appropriate article, or some combination of those 3 options.  SlubGlub (talk) 04:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coatrack 

message: Is it actually commercial-free? Because it seems like every half an hour or so, they'll interrupt the music to beg listeners for money. Yeah, their own website says they're commercial-free, but what if they're lying? Do those not count as commercials or something? 74.70.57.184 (talk)
: No, they don't. Every listener-supported radio station does this. The appeals aren't every half hour. I listen to SomaFM 25 hours a week and I hear only a couple appeals a day. They also seem to come in bunches: every few months there's a few days with more frequent appeals (probably when the news page says donations are unusually low), then it goes back down to normal. Sluggoster (talk) 02:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess technically those announcements could be considered advertisements. But we all know what's generally meant by the word "advertisements" or "commercials". I actually asked Rusty (SomaFM's founder) if there was any way to be able to subscribe to SomaFM and get a special announcement-free subscriber stream, but apparently this isn't quite as easy to achieve --Bruce (talk) 13:26, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commercial-free? 

message: See 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dissident93#SomaFM_changes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Grayfell#SomaFM_edits  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Somafmlistener (talk • contribs) 06:30, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I just posted a comment about these exact issues directly above this one. Grayfell (talk) 06:43, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  SomaFM Current and Historical Channel List Removal 

message: "most of these awards are given to the people curating the playlists, not the actual stations themselves"
Are they not the creators of the channels? And the awards are for the people and what they did on those channels.
"the awards themselves do not really seem that notable to begin with, and are nothing more than music fan/bloggers' opinion" 
SFBG San Francisco Bay Guardian was a significant weekly publication in San Francisco. CMJ was College Music Journal, an important if not the most important publication for college radio. The Mixcloud Online Radio Awards https://www.mora.fm is not a blog either.
Here are other references to winners of the Mixcloud Online Radio Awards (aka Online Radio Awards):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Brooklyn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTS_Radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_Radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Light_Radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Ritchie
Perhaps these should go in the history section, not a separate awards section? These pages do it that way:
(SFBG Best of the Bay awards)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_of_the_Hill 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootie_(club_night)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Real_Festival
However, this page lists it in a separate awards section:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers_with_Drinks  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.31.127 (talk) 20:36, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards and recognition