{"id":40080,"date":"2019-10-10T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40080"},"modified":"2019-10-10T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T11:46:40","slug":"1990s-japanese-satellite-radio-station-st-giga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/1990s-japanese-satellite-radio-station-st-giga\/","title":{"rendered":"1990’s Japanese Satellite radio station St. GIGA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Justin Moore, who writes:<\/p>\n

[I recently published a post] on the history of the 1990’s Japanese Satellite radio station St. GIGA (here http:\/\/www.sothismedias.com\/home\/the-lunar-phases-of-st-giga<\/a>\u00a0). They were a station that played ambient music and nature recordings and other stuff whose programming schedule was based on the movement of the tides. Very innovative!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow! Thanks for sharing this Justin. I was not familiar with St. Giga. I hope readers will comment if they listened to St. Giga in the 90s.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full article on Justin’s website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Justin Moore, who writes: [I recently published a post] on the history of the 1990’s Japanese Satellite radio station St. GIGA (here http:\/\/www.sothismedias.com\/home\/the-lunar-phases-of-st-giga\u00a0). They were a station that played ambient music and nature recordings and other stuff whose programming schedule was based on the movement of the tides. Very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7303,4307,8055],"class_list":["post-40080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-justin-patrick-moore-ke8coy","tag-satellite","tag-st-giga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aqs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35733,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/fascinating-episode-of-the-antarctic-sun-podcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":40080,"position":0},"title":"Fascinating episode of The Antarctic Sun podcast","author":"Thomas","date":"January 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Justin Moore (KE8COY), who shares the following: [T]here is an interesting podcast] that I'm sure you would like as well as anyone with an interest in radio might enjoy, especially in this weather. 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