[1][2][3] In 2002, RTM announced that it would launch a specialty channel dedicated to sports and recreation, which would later become Sukan RTM.

[4] The service was initially run as a trial from 2008, when it started during the Beijing Olympic Games and ended after the Summer Olympics finished.

10 years later, on 13 June 2018, RTM HD was officially launched as a trial broadcast exclusively on MYTV Broadcasting on channel 111.

On 13 July 2018, RTM HD changed its name to RTM HD Sports as a free-to-air all-sports channel still in tests.

[6] Its corporate slogan, Sukan Untuk Semua (Sports For All), was introduced.