Bio

Producer

Jim Baugh has been a composer for over 50 years and is a degreed musician with a BM in Electronic Music and a minor in piano. He has been a television producer for over 33 years with his own television studio producing a variety of television series and specials including award winning Jim Baugh Outdoors TV, RV Times, Ski East, Fishing Virginia and the Bassmasters Classic Richmond VA Specials.

In 2013  Jim moved his studios form the Richmond & Hampton Virginia area to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Since then, Jim has set up a new studio in Virginia Beach Virginia in January 2021. Jim has his  FAA part 107 certification for Remote Pilot Aircraft. Mermaid Bay AIR is now a division of  Mermaid Bay Productions LLC and produces television shows, tourism films, real estate video projects and many films featuring aerial video.​

Jim also produces short films one of which is a new astrophotography feature on the Milky Way which debut in June of 2019 at the Experimental Virginia Film Festival. The film has played in over 8 film festivals from coast to coast and so far has garnished 4 awards.

Jim Baugh still produces Jim Baugh Outdoors TV and the show is based out of the Oyster Farm in Kings Creek, Cape Charles Virginia.

Jim Baughs work has been seen on NBC Universal, NBC Sports, The History Channel, National Geographic, The Family Channel, The Outdoor Channel, The Sportsman Channel, Fox Sports, HTS, Sports South, America One, and many broadcast affiliates throughout the Mid-Atlantic and South East.

Writer \ Author
Amazon Best Selling Author Jim Baugh has written over 1000 columns for numerous magazines during the last 30 years including: Motor boating Magazine, Coastal Angler, Fishing Smart, The Chesapeake Angler, The Sportsman Magazine, Woods and Waters, Colonial Outdoors, The Nor Easter, Virginia Beach Sports Fishing and Travel Virginia Magazine.

Jim Baugh’s first published book, “HOOKED” was released by Solstice Publishing world wide late June of 2011. The book instantly won critical acclaim earning all five-star ratings and was featured book of the month by the publisher during the first month’s release. HOOKED reached best seller status on Amazon in April 2012. Jim finished the sequel to HOOKED, “AFTERMATH” which was published and released by Solstice Publishing late September 2014.

Jim wrote the screenplay HOOKED which was based on both books and placed top 100 screenplays for the year in the International Screenplay Association world wide competition held in Los Angles.

Jim Continues to write his monthly column for the Coastal Angler Magazine to this day.

Musician / Composer

Jim Baugh is an award winning composer and musician with a degree in applied synthesizer and has written, performed, and engineered all the soundtracks for JBOTV and also has leased his music to other production companies. In 2018 Jim finished his first piano concerto “Underwater Improv” a 3 movement, 30 minute piece of music set to all underwater dive film of the Palancar Reefs and Tunnels, Baja, and Hatteras NC. The 3d movement was feature on One World Radio in the UK.  

In April of 2019 Jim completed the new soundtrack for his short film, “The Milky Way Galaxy, Our Home” which debut at the Experimental Virginia Film Festival in June of 2019. The film went on to play at other festivals and won an award of merit for music at the 2019 Southern Shorts Film Festival. The film will be showcased at the Ocean City Film Festival in March of 2020.

In December of 2019 Jim released his first Piano Collections Vol 1 DVD with all the music set to film. Locations included Baja, Cozumel, Hatteras, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The DVD includes the award winning soundtrack from the Milky Way Galaxy Our Home Short Film. The DVD is also available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.