She Built the Whole Network. Now She's Opening the Door.
Season one of The Access Index: Jackson closed Friday. RAATV founder Jara Everett is using the moment to open her music and film divisions to outside artists, with a reunion, a competition series and a second season lined up behind it.
CHICAGO, Ill. — The finale of The Access Index: Jackson dropped Friday night, closing out a seven-episode first season. For most independent networks that would be the finish line. Jara Everett is treating it as the soft open.
RAATV now streams on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and the web, with Samsung Smart TV in review. Behind those apps sits a music division, a film division carrying both scripted and unscripted work, submission portals for finished projects, and a partner dashboard that pays creators eighty percent of what their titles earn.
Everett built it with Larry Ingram, RAATV's chief operating officer, who co-created and produced The Access Index: Jackson alongside her.
"Everybody in this business tells you to wait your turn," Everett said. "Larry and I stopped waiting and built it ourselves. Now the pipes are laid across six platforms, and I'd rather they carry your work than just ours. When Hollywood says no, we say bring it here."
Three productions are already on the books for the next twelve months.
The Access Index: Jackson returns in October, when the cast tapes a reunion in front of a live audience at the Old Capitol Inn in Jackson. Fans are earning those seats rather than winning them, through a campaign running at raatv.net/theroom, with the front row held for business owners. The reunion streams this fall. Season two goes back into production in the spring of 2027 and premieres next summer.
Jumpoff Chicago was created by Everett and Lala Kellz, who executive produce it together for RAATV. Larry Ingram produces and Who Else Entertainment is casting. It films this winter. Fifteen performers move into one house for fourteen days with the cameras running and two hosts working the room. Eliminations are rolling. Whoever is still standing at the end takes $5,000 and a deal with RAATV, shaped to whatever they actually do, a single through RAATV Music for a recording artist and a produced special for everybody else. Casting is open now.
Musicians can submit at raatv.net/music, where artists keep seventy percent of what their videos earn. Filmmakers holding a finished project, scripted or not, can bring it through the submission portal at raatv.net.
Everett's pitch to brands is about timing. RAATV is selling sponsorship across the reunion, Jumpoff Chicago, the music division and season two, and the network is still small enough that a whole category is available to one advertiser.
"I'm not asking anybody to take a chance on an idea," Everett said. "The apps are live. The season is finished. The audience is already here. The only thing left to decide is who gets to stand next to it."
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