Location Factors

Location Factors (Styled as location:factors) is a regional programme produced by Emoa Productions and shown on NETV. The programme served as part of NETV's application for the North East franchise, and has been in production and shown on the channel since April 2006. Similarly to other geographical regional programmes, each Location Factors episode focuses on various areas of natural, historical or evolutionary beauty, however with a rich team of historians, geographers and technical graphics designers, the programme looks into the past of the area and what brought it to how it looks today.

The first series began in April 2006 and ran to September, with the second being shown from October 2006 to September 2007. The programme concept was also used by GTV between May and September 2006, however GTV did not re-commission the programme for a second series. A possible flaw in GTV's screening was its poor scheduling against Gaelic and other regional programmes, whereas NETV has always heavily promoted the programme and is given generous airtime. A third North East series was shown between September 2007 and mid-December 2007, and after a short break, a fourth series will air from 14 January 2008.

It has effectively become NETV's flagship original geographical regional programme, after the initial daily programme, North Community, was axed in September 2006.