National Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA; Pashto: د افغانستان ملي راډيو تلويزیون Da Afġānistān Millī Rādīo Televizion, Persian: رادیو تلویزیون ملی افغانستان Rādīo Televizion-e Millī-ye Afġānistān, branded as ملی (meaning national)) is the public-broadcasting organization of Afghanistan, based in Kabul.
Two radio transmitters with the capacity of 400 watts were procured from the German company Telefunken, one of those has been installed on Koti Londoni near the bridge of Artel [citation needed] which subsequently started its operation and the second one had been transferred to Kandahar which on that period the musical programs and news were only being broadcast for few hours.
However this never came to fruition due to disagreements about the reform between president Hamid Karzai and other cabinet figures, despite the passing of several media laws.
Eventually in April 2014, RTA was re-designated as an 'independent directorate', effectively meaning that the Ministry of Information no longer has direct control of the organization.
Karzai's successor Ashraf Ghani also voiced his vision for RTA to become independent from the government.