Born from the will of the President of the Republic Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1960-1993), who wanted to make it an instrument of development at the service of the populations, the RTI originally broadcast only 5 h 30 min of weekly radio programs .

The effort to cover the territory, undertaken seven years earlier, materialized with the opening of a television news antenna in 1973 in Bouaké, in the center of the country, which was transformed into a regional station in 1980.

He himself created a television channel called Télévision Côte d'Ivoire (TCI) which began broadcasting on January 22, 2011.

[2] RFI has begun a push for total radio and television coverage of the nation prior to the 2008 general elections, and has a 9 billion (us) CFA Franc program to rebuild broadcast facilities.

[4] Much of the population in the northern rebel regions see the RTI news programs as culpable in the propaganda push of the national government.