I originally had this video up with the “BS Tantei Club” vids, but it really deserved it’s own post – I’m just a bit of an unorganized crammer, really.
This melancholy video, which I found labeled “LAST DAY”, shows someone viewing St. Giga’s farewell message, and being unable to even get a BS Yoshi no Panepon download in time… Read the rest of this entry »
As a Satellaview researcher I’ve wondered about the nature of St. Giga – and how they got involved in an ambitous Nintendo project – for a while. Even as I’ve looked up Satellaview content, I’ve also looked into researching St. Giga as a whole.
For a while I’ve tried entering search terms with their title on NicoNicoDouga – and recently I’ve been getting results. You can check some of them after the snip.
More importantly though, the English Wikipedia has been doing articles based on translations of the Japanese Wikipedia.
I’d like to thank anyone who helped on that. 
It’s very helpful, and it gives me context into some of my search results, too.
Whether it be the experimental New-Age music, or the just-as-experimental yet radically different Satellaview, St. Giga’s history was innovation in the music business – which may have been why Nintendo sought them out for this project.
I’ll get this question out of the way with as short an answer as I can.
The Satellaview was an add-on for the Super Famicom. It’s “Gimmick”? “Satellite Broadcasting”.
The whole package came with the hardware add-on at the bottom as well as it’s BIOs cart, dubbed the “BS-X”, which would plug into the SFC’s cartridge port.
What does that mean? It means data was sent to you from Satellite. The most relatable comparison I can probably think of is to Sega’s USA service “Sega Channel”, which was a similar concept, although that used Cable instead of satellite, and tried more to simulate on-demand programming than a channel per se.
Using the Satellaview, you could download various things into memory packs, including games, news, and magazines. You could also take advantage of the Satellite Audio capabilities to listen to your favorite radio shows, or play special games which made use of live audio broadcasts to enhance the gameplay.
The Satellaview was a cooperative project between Nintendo, whom need no introduction, and St. Giga, a Japanese Satellite Radio service.
Later articles have dug into St. Giga’s history as a Satellite Digital Radio station in the New-Age Ambience genre, although when the Satellaview was released there was a radical shift towards celebrity and videogame-oriented programming.