The footage for the news service was flown in from 12-ton containers and broadcast using Thomson-CSF equipment, who installed a 10 kW transmitter in Abobo and 200 meter high antenna.

It opened a second station in Dotenzia, Bouaké in December 1963, due to the high number of television receivers being bought in Abidjan alone.

[1] On 4 August 1966, two studios in Cocody, 100m2 and 400m2 respectively were built with quality equipment, increasing the daily schedule to five hours.

[1] On December 24, 1999, under the presidency of Henri Konan Bedié, the first coup d'état in the country broke out, led by Robert Gueï.

The latter as well as the rebels who accompanied him seized the channel by force in order to inform the Ivorian people of the situation, either after the fall of the presidency and Henri Konan Bedié and the takeover of power by Robert Gueï.

During the period of antagonism between the two channels, the Ivorian people criticized them for not being properly interested in their suffering and real problems, but also for not sufficiently proclaiming peace and reconciliation in the country.

Some judged that the RTI did not have an objective aim, others thought that the principles, ethics and deontology of the journalistic profession were not respected and that it was better to change the channel.

Furthermore, under the latter's orders, the foreign media which announced the information in their country that Alassane Ouattara was the winner of the presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire were cut off throughout the Ivorian territory.

He himself created an equally propagandistic television channel called Télévision Côte d'Ivoire (TCI) - having started broadcasting on January 22, 2011.

However, the RTI acted with a sort of censorship, and tried to cover up the crude and offensive elements of the situation while the TCI showed the bloody part of the conflict and was more brutal in its way of sharing the information.

[5] After the conflict, TCI disappeared, and RTI wanted to create a new image and put the past, which was painful and bitter, behind it forever.

It wanted to put an end to all kinds of rivalry, all hateful conflicts or all fear, and make way for lasting trust and common peace with the Ivorian people.