Brian Godfrey, President

In Louisiana, hunting season happens eight months out of every year. Her backwoods and bayous crawl with fowl and four-legged critters. There’s never a bad time to camp or fish, and she offers literally thousands of hiking and biking trails.

Brian Godfrey, like many young boys, fell hard for her. Tempted by the charms of this “Sportsman’s Paradise,” he stole his mom’s camcorder and talked a friend into helping him film his first hunt. He was 14. By the time he reached 12th grade, the student with a 3.67 GPA nearly failed because he had accumulated 25 tardy slips. School had taken a backseat to carrying a camera covered in camouflage tape.

His first break in outdoor television came in the early ‘90s. John Brown, a family friend, produced a segment called Outdoor News for KTVE in Monroe. Viewers loved it and when ratings skyrocketed, the station’s general manager moved the segment to the evening news. John called Brian and enlisted him as a camera hand. At the time Brian attended Louisiana Tech on a golf scholarship.

Soon, he fell back into the arms of Louisiana’s wildlife, forgot about school and started filming for Knight & Hale’s Ultimate Whitetail Season. He also found work guiding bow hunts at Tara Wildlife in Mississippi and freelancing for Primos and Bass Pro Shops. This led Brian, a self-taught videographer, to permanent work as a producer for the National Wild Turkey Federation.

Brian spent six years writing about turkeys, filming turkeys and planning turkey hunts. Finally, he got tired of turkeys. They were draining his creativity, and he wanted to get back to filming the big game he and John hunted as kids: whitetails.

So when Brian founded BOSS, he and John created Quality Whitetails Television. Quality Deer Management Association liked the concept and, today, more that 60,000 viewers watch the show each week on Men’s Outdoors and Recreation.

Brian works from his home studio in Edgefield, S.C. His wife Jenny coordinates sales and marketing for BOSS and is an on-the-go Mom to Mason, a miniature version of Brian.

phone: (803) 270-9508
e-mail: brian@bossoutdoors.net