Congress of the issues surrounding the "business" of the new industry. The cable lobby had portrayed back yard dish owners as pirates and accused them of stealing their programming. The STAA (Overholt was a member) and others made it public that offers had been made to the programmers to pay for the product being received but most programmers had refused the "offer to pay". The STAA sought assistance from their elected representatives, of which Al Gore was one, for a fair solution to the problem. Gore was conducting local town hall meetings and had a sympathetic ear for this ground roots movement from his constituents. A few months later when the STAA decided to bring the issues to dish owners they used the same satellite signal to do so. From a rented studio in Nashville they hired a local MC to host a panel of "experts" in the field to answer questions and propose solutions to the dish industries problems. Gore was unable to attend in person but had pledged his support and participated in the event via telephone. JD Clinton acquires the network In 1987 the company sold shares and became a penny stock listed in the pink sheets as SATH. By 1993 the company was struggling to attain profitability. Paul Cowell the majority shareholder sold the company to venture capitalist JD Clinton and his partners. Kent Lillie moved from General Manager of Fox TV in Atlanta to become the CEO. Under new leadership the company moved to a new campus in Nashville Tennessee and opened a state of the art digital production / broadcast facility with studios and an in house call center. Shop at Home became a cable and broadcast media company purchasing cable time and acquiring television stations. Under the FCC rules all local cable companies "must carry" local programing at no charge to a local broadcaster. Using this must carry rule to obtain broad market 24 hour coverage of its programming, Shop at Home acquired stations in Bridgeport, Connecticut/New York City, Lawrence/Boston, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California, Wilson/Raleigh, North Carolina, Canton/Cleveland, Ohio, and Houston, Texas. Shop at Home built coverage into approximately one hundred million households. Expanding this audience drove the revenue and gave the opportunity for product volume and profitability. With growth came a listing of SATH on NASDAQ and expansion of management. Successful programming strategies (1995–2006) The success of The Coin Vault (hosted by