Bite The Bullet Podcast expands Caribbean voice to Dutch television through RTV7

GREAT BAY/THE NETHERLANDS--Caribbean-rooted Bite The Bullet Podcast, hosted by Jody Morgan and Hadie Davis, has reached a major new milestone with the start of its television broadcast on RTV7, expanding the platform’s reach to audiences across the Netherlands.

The podcast can now be viewed every Saturday at 5:00 p.m. CET on RTV7 via Ziggo channel 75, KPN channel 93 and Odido channel 515. RTV7 describes itself as a Dutch television network serving Caribbean and Surinamese communities in the Netherlands, with programming in Dutch, Papiamento, English and Spanish. The network is available through major Dutch television providers, including Ziggo, KPN and Odido.

The move gives Bite The Bullet a new television platform for conversations centered on Caribbean life, culture, identity, relationships, entrepreneurship, migration and the experiences of Caribbean people living abroad. The podcast has developed its audience around what it describes as raw and open conversations that connect island experiences with life in the diaspora.

RTV7 has served Caribbean and Surinamese audiences in the Netherlands since 2008. Its programming includes content from the Caribbean and Latin America along with its own productions, providing a television connection between communities in Europe and the Caribbean. Since May 2024, TeleCuraçao has again been managing RTV7.

For Bite The Bullet, joining the station is particularly significant because of the podcast’s roots in St. Maarten and Saba.

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The program is hosted by Jody Morgan, known as Jojo Renée, and Hadie Davis, known as Hadie Leonie. Morgan was born in Saba and moved to the Netherlands at age 17. She is an entrepreneur and designer in addition to her role as co-founder and host of Bite The Bullet. Davis was born and raised in St. Maarten and is an educator and creative who currently teaches English in The Hague.

What began as conversations between two friends has developed into a wider creative platform. Working alongside producer Kristen Sorton, the team grew the podcast from an informal living-room setup into a studio production and later established its own creative studio in the Netherlands. The team has said its work is intended to create more space for Caribbean voices and emerging creatives.

The podcast has also built an audience beyond the Netherlands, connecting with members of the Caribbean diaspora in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. Its episodes frequently explore questions of Caribbean identity, representation, migration and the relationship between those living on the islands and those who have moved abroad.

“Our mission has always been bigger than a podcast,” the Bite The Bullet team stated in announcing the RTV7 development. “We exist to build bridges between the islands and the diaspora, giving Caribbean people a space to tell our own stories, in our own voices.”

The team said the television expansion creates an opportunity not only to reach Caribbean people already familiar with St. Maarten, Saba and the wider region, but also Dutch television viewers who may be encountering those communities and their stories in greater depth for the first time.

The development comes as Bite The Bullet continues to grow its catalogue and production. The podcast, which began in 2023, has produced dozens of episodes featuring discussions and guests covering culture, music, business, relationships, social issues and Caribbean identity.

For Morgan and Davis, the RTV7 broadcast also increases visibility for the smaller islands of the Dutch Caribbean, particularly St. Maarten and Saba, within the Netherlands.

The pair have increasingly used the platform to explore what Caribbean identity means for people who live between the islands and Europe, including questions surrounding belonging, representation, maintaining cultural connections and ensuring that Caribbean communities are able to tell their own stories.

The team described the RTV7 partnership as an important milestone and credited its guests, listeners, supporters, sponsors, Patreon members and wider community for helping the podcast grow.

Whether viewers have followed Bite The Bullet from its earliest episodes or are discovering the program for the first time through television, the team says the objective remains the same: to create a space where Caribbean voices, experiences and perspectives are heard.

Bite The Bullet Podcast airs every Saturday at 5:00 p.m. CET on RTV7: Ziggo 75, KPN 93 and Odido 515.

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