[1] RTK operates two radio services, offering a diverse range of news, music, and entertainment programs.

Additionally, it runs four 24-hour television channels, broadcasting a variety of content including news, sports, culture, movies, and documentaries.

[3] After UNMIK took over the administration of Kosovo in June 1999 and re-employed former RTP staffs, RTK began broadcasting in September 1999 via analog satellite in PAL and SECAM television broadcast standards with a daily two-hour transmission, expanding to four hours per day in November 2000, with programming mainly in Albanian and once-a-day news edition in Serbian and Turkish.

The station was initially managed by the European Broadcasting Union to permit time for a non-political Board of Directors to be established.

Journalists at RTK have repeatedly protested in 2015 against political interference, up to asking for the dismissal of chief editors for obstruction and internal censorship.

[8]: 33  [9] RTK has been criticised for lack of investigative journalism and political bias, e.g. in the extensive coverage of the ruling political party (including the annual meeting of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo) as opposed to the short and misleading coverage of opposition Vetëvendosje 2012 protests, which was deemed "a major signal of state financing putting the editorial independence of public television at risk" (IREX, 2013b).

Political pressures aside, RTK maintains an untapped potential thanks to good equipment and professional editors and journalists.

[11] One of the main motivations for the RTK to become an EBU member is its potential participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, the campaign for which has also been going since 2014.