Yorkville Southern Television Pty Ltd

Yorkville Southern Television Pty Ltd is a five-network company consiting of an operation of ABC1, Seven, Nine, Ten, and SBS One stations serving Yorkville, north of Melbourne, in Victoria. Yorkville Southern Television Pty Ltd serves a vast majority of Yorkville. The company is located in downtown Yorkville on Orange Avenue.

History
In the 1960s, in the small city of Yorkville, north of Melbourne, in Victoria, a consortium of producers and television pioneers pushed forward to create four stations, comparable to the bigger stations in Melbourne and in Sydney. These Yorkville TV stations would serve as a distinctive voice for a distinctive area, and would prove themselves on par as "pseudo-capital-city stations". It is this unique status that would save these stations from succombing the aggregation policies of the government in the late 1980s, notably where stations in smaller centres were combined into regional stations like PRIME/GWN, WIN Television and Southern Cross Ten. Of course, the stations reacted early and in 1984, they came together under one umbrella group known as Yorkville Southern Television Pty Ltd, which lasts to this day.

The first four stations were started up in the 1960s: ABC, Seven, Nine, and Ten. When the network later known as SBS came along, a new station, YSS-28 was started up, providing SBS programming, and increasing the total number of stations in five.

Stations
ABYV-5 - Affiliation with ABC1 - Started broadcasts in 1967 YSV-7 - Affiliation with the Seven Network - Started broadcasts in 1968 YTV-9 - Affiliation with the Nine Network - Started broadcasts in 1968 TYV-10 - Affiliation with Network Ten - Started broadcasts in 1968 YSS-28 - Affiliation with SBS One - Started broadcasts in 1985