Yonland Television

Yonland Television is the name given to two sets of stations in regional Yonland that are affiliates of the Nine Network headquarteted in Karrageenan and Raffleston. Similar to Imparja, YTV's network is separate and has a greater level of autonomy than the Southern Cross stations, similar to Imparja Television.
==History==
YTV initially was a group of smaller independent television stations:
*1 March 1971: KTY-8 Karrageenan
*18 June 1971: DTY-2 Nunawarri
*24 November 1974: RTY-11 Raffleston
*9 September 1979: GBY-3 Ganaba
Throughout the first ten years of regional television, a further two stations launched that were not part of the network that would later become YTV.
Up until then, Yonland was deprived of any regional commercial television, and television arrived in 1966 as links from NNY, the NNB station in Yorkville, with NNKY in Karrageenan being the first.
In 1991, the government proceeded to approve the merger of the Karrageenan and Nunawarri markets into Yanararo's YRY, who was acquired by Southern Cross as a Seven affiliate. Raffleston and Ganaba wouldn't be aggregated with Agraham until 1993 who had a station under similar conditions.
In 1990, the four stations above not acquired by Southern Cross decided to create the Yonland Television Network, eventually taking on a dual Nine and Ten affiliation in 1991 in Karrageenan and Nunawarri (YTV West) in 1991. YTV East, in Raffleston and Ganaba, was still technically a Nine affiliate but still held affiliations with Seven and Ten until 1993.
YTV adopted the Nine Network's characteristic nine dots in 1991 on all four stations, despite the station carrying Ten programming as well as many local programs.
YTV and Southern Cross Television issued a license for a third station - YDT - to be headquartered in YTV's central headquarters in Karrageenan. YDT launched in 2008.
Yontext, YTV's teletext service, went live in 1989 in Karageenan. The service later expanded to Nunawarri in 1991 and the rest of the aggregated regions in 1993. The service shut down in 2009. During the service's last two years, like most regional teletext services, it was limited to a basic news and schedule (schedules limited to YTV and later its sister channel YDT) service. In late 2009, when it shut down, the news sections were replaced by information on DTT services in the YTV catchment area and the schedules.
All news operations were centralized in Karrageenan in 2016, citing budget constraints. This means that YTV will eventually drop the East and West feeds it had been operating since their respective areas were aggregated. In the same year, YTV and Southern Cross sold YDT to the WIN Corporation.
==Branding==
Until the creation of the YTV brand, each station used individual logos and graphics. A temporary logo was introduced in 1990. In March 1991, the nine dots were added to a simple wordmark, like WIN and later NBN.
==Programming==
As an independently-owned affiliate of the Nine Network, YTV follows the network's programming, with minor deviations. These are a stronghold of how the network was until the 2008 launch of YDT.
When the YTV network was launched, it shared Ten's programming with Southern Cross. In order to avoid soap conflicts, YTV aired Neighbours and Southern Cross aired Home and Away. Because of this, YTV's network schedule deviated more from other Nine affiliates, even WIN's shared operations in Western Northulia.
Between 1993 and 2008, YTV had a complex primetime schedule, often showing Ten programming during primetime in place of Nine's. For example: Big Brother Northulia was shown live during its run, forced most Nine Network programming to move to other time slots. This was later proven to be problematic when, in 2005, Southern Cross became an affiliate of Seven thus ending the shared deal between the two channels.
YTV has produced a significant number of local programming, with a strong centralization on Karrageenan-made programs since the 2000s. In an unusual move, YTV made its very own television series, Karrageenan Vice, between 2002 and 2007.