In return for the installation of nuclear testing center in Mururoa in French Polynesia, the General de Gaulle promised to provide free Polynesian television.

The channel then broadcasts three hours a day programs from metropolitan France six months late and national newsletters from the previous week.

During the following sixteen years, RFO Tahiti gradually acquired quality technical equipment to produce and broadcast more and more regional programs.

[2] All television channels on the network changed their name on November 30, 2010 at the start of TNT and Tele Polynesia became Polynésie Première.

The name change refers to the leading position of this channel on its broadcasting territory and its first place on the remote control and its numbering in coherence with the other antennas of the group France Televisions.

Since 30 November 2010 and the arrival of metropolitan public channels, Polynésie 1ère had to increase its own productions, with 25% of local programs and more, giving priority to proximity and addressing economic and social problems of the territory (emissions special events, political debates, recording of shows, football matches, midnight mass, Telethon).

The channel is now free to choose its own programs and, thanks to the increased budget it enjoys, it has the necessary means to produce, co-produce and buy.