North Community

Community is a rural and agricultural regional programme produced by Emoa Productions for NETV. It is currently shown on Thursdays and Fridays at 14.40, and a condensed repeat of both on Saturdays at 15.30. It focuses around regional farming, rural businesses, rural affairs and community projects.

North Community was the first regional programme to be shown on the channel in April 2006, and aired daily Monday to Friday, often live, on a series of regional topics including local politics, farming, business, education, countryside and other topics. Originally the single programme covered 80% of NETV's non-news regional programming quota, however episodes were shortened from 60 minutes to 30 minutes in June 2006, before a significant scheduling change in August lead to it being shown less often in more off-peak hours. As such, the live programmes were generally phased out and topics became mostly countryside and farming orientated, as other regional programmes such as Emoa Lobby and Location Factors took over many of the other topics, which were now being shown in increasing frequency.



In September 2006 after the publication of the new network schedule, North Community was demoted to a single 30 minute mid-week daytime slot with a repeat on Sundays. As the range of other regional programme titles grew, the need for the diverse topics of North Community was becoming less and less, until finally the the progamme was put to rest in March 2007.

The programme was revived simply as Community in January 2008 as part of the new schedule, however now being almost totally focused around rural affairs and community projects in the North East.

The format was also used by GTV in the almost identical programme, Gael Community.