Radio Télévision nationale congolaise (RTNC) is the national broadcaster of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

After the country gained independence, Radio du Congo Belge (RCB) became Radiodiffusion Nationale Congolaise (RNC).

RTNC started television broadcasts in Kinshasa on November 24, 1966,[2] three hours a day (7pm to 10pm), on VHF channel 5.

[3] By the mid-1970s, following the rename of the country to Zaire, the television station was known as Télé-Zaire, and had its broadcasting hours extended (6pm to 11pm weekdays and 10am or 1pm to 11pm weekends).

[6] Between 1981 and 1997, it was known as the Office Zaïrois de Radio Télévision (OZRT) at the time of Zaire,[7] it was also the only Zairian agency to broadcast on the airwaves since the 1972 law.