By Kalin Krohe, Panhandle Post
Eagle Communications in the Alliance, Chadron and North Platte markets started 2021 off with more advertising opportunities for businesses and the great communities throughout our multi-media foot print. How? Through video. Eagle welcomes world-class videographer Robert Adair.
Now advertisers can utilize not only radio, online, web design, social media marketing, but also video production with Adair.
"Initially he has a skill set that hasn't been seen in our immediate area for quite some time," said Lewys Carlini, North Platte area Sales Manager. "As far as professionalism, ability...I think those are the things our area has needed and now we've got that opportunity for our clients. This is a whole new level of expertise."
Robert Adair worked in video production with Cabela's for about 15 years traveling all over the world.
"Being employed with Cabela's...that type of company with the investment they made in him for that many years shows a lot of credibility to his skill set," Carlini added. "I think those are the main things that we want and need in our area. He's a phone call away from being here the next day, which is kind of nice. Instead of waiting for three or four days...or setting something up a month in advance, we can roll it out quick."
Adair said he started out with Cabela's filming their hunting and fishing TV shows.
"It was a wonderful experience because I got to travel the world and got to fulfil a lot of bucket lists," said Adair. "I've been to Africa twice and New Zealand. In Africa we were hunting plains game. Probably one of the most exciting hunts was a Cape Buffalo hunt. It was the real deal. A lot of times you go to South Africa and it's kind of high tense, but this was in Zimbabwe. There are no fences. We had leopard come through our camp. The Cape Buffalo is one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. It was pretty exhilarating. That was just archery hunts in South Africa."
Adair has also been to Panama twice, Turkey and New Zealand.
"The place we were at was for marlins," Adair added. "There's four or five species of marlin. Guys that have money go down there to fulfill a bucket list. Hopefully catching all five in one trip. I was in Turkey with a guy hunting Ibex [Bezoar]. I went to New Zealand and we hunted Stag, Red Deer and Fallow Deer."
Adair said his Father always said, "All good things come to an end." Cabela's was becoming bigger and decided to not continue to create their own TV shows.
Adair went on to say outdoor TV started to change as well. Instead of being more informative, it became more entertainment with personalities.
"Our new CEO at that time was really into internal communications so we did a lot of internal communications video," said Adair. "A lot of product videos, which still got me out and about...not around the world, but around the country. A lot of the product videos we did were literally in the field. I mean if it were Water Fowl hunting...we were down west of Wichita [Kansas]. It's one of the most premier Water Fowling hunting destinations in the country. We were filming product videos there for about a week. It was pretty cool. We'd gone to Arizona for some of our active wear stuff during the winter time."
Cabela's was then bought out by Bass Pro Shops.
Adair said it was a shock to a lot of employees who had been with Cabela's for a long time. They had sold their marketing department including video to Quad Graphics. Adair worked for them for a number of years and then moved into free lance video work. After that he got out of video production for awhile working for Capital Business Systems as a Electromechanical Technician.
"As a world-class videographer Robert Adair brings a skill set into the Panhandle for our customers that we've never really had," said Dave Feddersen, Alliance/Chadron Digital Sales Manager. "Truly he's seen and done things...just his experience and skill set is going to open up a door for many opportunities just not for us, but for local and regional businesses. He's going to add some true value to some of their brand and marketing campaigns. His relationship building skills, his people skills...I mean he's just a good dude from the heartland that's literally one of the best in the world."
Adair said he's really excited to have joined Eagle Communications.
"Just the excitement that everybody has, it's pretty cool," said Adair. "Just listening to everybody and what's going on for just the short time that I've been here, it's just exciting. It sounds like it's going to bring a lot of new experiences for me."
Below are links to some of the video work Robert Adair has shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d4qPGMm0DM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw98SRywnIU&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNpPnngIo0c&feature=youtu.be