Tennesee’s Wild Side Weekly Pro Staff

Barry Cross

Barry Cross was born and raised in Middle Tennessee area. Growing up in Columbia, he spent a lot of time fishing in and around the Duck River and hunting what is now the Yanahli Wildlife Management area.

His interest in television production was born at Middle Tennessee State University. One professor thought Barry had an eye for photography and for the next 8 years that is what he did.

Barry began his career as a photojournalist in 1993 at a small station in Augusta,GA. Soon, he found himself back in Tennessee, working for WKRN in Nashville.

In August of 2000, Barry was offered a job doing an outdoor adventure show and jumped at the chance to do high quality and entertaining stories about the state he grew up in.

Not only has Barry been involved with the production of the Emmy award winning show Tennessee’s Wild Side, he also won two Emmy Awards’s for his work on a campaign for the State District Atty’s called Meth Is Death, in competition with professionals from television stations all across Tennessee, North Carolina, and Northern Alabama.

Married for 12 years to wife Kasey and the father of two beautiful girls, Rachel and Kate, with a job he loves, Barry will be the first to tell you that life is good. But He admits that the hardest part of his job is shooting video of people doing what he wishes he was doing. But, then who would operate the camera?