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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: St.GIGA, Digital One, NOW Kent, Bauer Humberside, NOW Leicester, Bauer South Yorkshire, CE Manchester, DAB in Ireland, Score Northern Ireland, Bauer Leeds, Bauer Liverpool, Bauer Teesside, Bauer Tyne & Wear, Bauer Central Lancashire, NOW Home Counties, Score Glasgow, CE Birmingham, Score Edinburgh, CE London, NOW Nottingham, Score Dundee, NOW Bristol, Switch Scotland, Arqiva Ayr, BBC National DAB, Switch Aberdeen, MXR West Midlands, MuxCo Gloucestershire, MuxCo Hereford & Worcester, MXR Yorkshire, NOW Berkshire & North Hampshire, NOW Exeter and Torbay, MuxCo North Wales, NOW Northampton, NOW Oxford, MXR North West, MuxCo Mid & West Wales, MuxCo Lincolnshire, NOW Norwich, NOW Cardiff & Newport, MuxCo Sussex & Surrey, MXR Severn Estuary, MXR North East, MuxCo North Yorkshire, MuxCo Somerset, NOW Derbyshire, NOW Cornwall, NOW Coventry, NOW Essex, NOW Wolverhampton, NOW Bournemouth, NOW South Hampshire, UTV-Bauer West Yorkshire, NOW Cambridge, Switch London, Swansea SW Wales, DRG London, NOW Peterborough, NOW Swindon, Score Inverness, Stoke & Stafford, NOW Sussex Coast, NOW Wiltshire. Excerpt: St.GIGA Sento.GIGA) is the name of a defunct satellite radio company that was formed as a subsidiary of satellite television company WOWOW and later became semi-independent, forming a keiretsu with its parent. Using the BS network to broadcast digital radio via direct broadcast satellite as a test on November 30, 1990, St.GIGA became the world's first Satellite Digital Audio Broadcast Corporation. Regular broadcasting began March 30, 1991, and by September 1, St.GIGA adopted the commercial-free concept proposed by producer Hiroshi Yokoi and began to charge a broadcasting subscription fee. Following a period of financial difficulties and as part of an agreement with Nintendo, from between April 1995 and June 2000, St.GIGA broadcast...
