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Jody Blackwelder of Gen7Outdoors offering Hunting at its best
……tell our listeners all throughout North America just about Gen7Outdoors, how they find you. And once they get to your page, or your site, what they’re going to see on your show.
Jody: All right. Well, what we do is Gen7Outdoors is a streaming TV network, so what we have is a platform that people who are starting a TV show, or that have a TV show established, they can come and they can air with us. We have scheduled programming that’s a live feed, plus we have an on-demand site so people can go and watch. We have a channel on Roku and we have everything on our website.
It’s free for everybody who comes to the website to look at and watch. It’s a really cool platform for people who are trying to come up in the industry and it’s also a neat platform for people in the industry to expand their reach. We’ve got a pretty strong fan base and we’re just real excited about all what we have going on right now.
Is it all hunting shows
Bruce: Now what type of shows do you have? ? Or does it have fishing? Or birding? What’s on the show?
Jody: We have a pretty good mix right now. It’s a little heavy on the hunting side right now, but we do have some new shows that are coming on in the third and fourth quarter of this year that are fishing. And then I actually already booked some shows for 2017, first and second quarter, that’s fishing. But mostly it’s hunting and variety outdoors, where they have hunting fishing, birding, you know, just a general outdoor show. So we have a pretty good variety.
Right now, first and second quarter, since we just rolled out in January, we have about 15 shows that will be on in the first and second quarter. But starting in the third and fourth quarter, we will have somewhere around 20 shows that will be on that. There’s a lot of good content, a lot of great things to watch. These guys are doing a great job putting their shows together, so we’re real excited.
Bruce: So I watch your show and I want to learn X about whitetail hunting. What are some of the things, the content that you have that will help me become a better whitetail hunter?
Jody: Well you know, a lot of these shows that we have on are just your average every day hunters. They go out and buy the camera equipment and they try hard to get the quality content and be able to show some really god footage of deer hunting. In doing this, a lot of these guys are learning themselves, as far as in the woods. No one, I don’t believe, is ever an expert.
There’s always room to learn and watching these shows, especially the newcomer who’s coming on board and filming and producing shows, it’s real interesting to see how they start out with their first episode and how they’re hunting, and how they change up their game plan by the thirteenth episode. All of them mature during the year and during the filming season. They will pick some new tricks and they always are implementing new technologies in hunting deer. It’s pretty neat to see it all play out.
always can learn new tricks.
Bruce: Well I know a lot of listeners as well as myself always can learn new tricks. Because I’ve been only hunting whitetails for 50 years and yeah, I’ve put a few bucks on the ground and a lot of does on the ground, but I always get schooled by that nature buck. So if somebody is looking for mature buck secrets, what do you think they would see on the show?
Jody: Well this last year is a perfect example of a rough season. Here in North Carolina and throughout the whole South, the weather was so warm that deer went just straight nocturnal. So you had all these people who were filming hunts who really had to put in extra work and time and they were really describing, you know, in their episodes that they were filming in November and December what they were having to do different to try to get a mature whitetail in front of them.