Primestar has 160 channels
Mother Lode Internet, the first Internet provider in Tuolumne County, is still a family-owned-and-operated business that plans to keep its focus on the Mother Lode.
Although Dennis and Brenda Dahlin have incorporated the business, they remain the only stockholders.
Primestar is America's first digital TV news and entertainment service, and the only Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) provider that doesn't require the purchase of equipment, said Shari Simpson, marketing administrator.
Visitors to the Home and Garden Show will be able to watch live satellite feeds and try the 160 channels now available using the 28-inch Primestar satellite dish.
Two free installations will be given away, each with a month's free Prime Value Programming package.
The company was formed in 1990 offering 10 channels. In 1994, it was upgraded to digital sound and picture, allowing it to expand its services.
Some of the television news, entertainment and public service channels offered with the new satellite include MSNBC and CNBC, Outdoor Life, Speedvision, Home and Garden Television, Game Show Network, superstation WGN, C-SPAN2, Showtime, Showtime2 and Sundance Channel, Comedy Central and Nick at Nite's TV Land and BET, the TV Food Network and Court TV in addition to more audio channels from Digital Music Express.
Primestar is sold in Tuolumne County at Audio Video Interiors, Radio Shack, Sierra Vista Communications and Barry Electric.
In Calaveras County, it is sold at Middleton's, San Andreas and West Point Video.
"Primestar provides all the equipment, maintenance and service to its customers," Simpson said.
Primestar
1935 N. Rabe, Fresno
452-3614