RTI 2 started broadcasting in November 1983. Unlike the existing RTI channel, its coverage area was limited to
Abidjan and adjacent areas. As
Canal 2, the channel's transmitter covered a radius of 50km, with limited programming on Tuesdays and Fridays from 8:30pm. After broadcasting as an experimental service for several years, RTI reformatted the channel as
TV2 on 1 November 1991, using the same transmitter as before. The channel broadcast on VHF channel 10, expanding the reach to 150km and was defined by RTI as a "proximity channel for Abidjan". The channel's audience increased after the introduction of a new schedule in March 1997 (redeveloped in 1999). The impulse for the creation of a regular second channel was given to Amadou Thiam,
Félix Houphouët-Boigny's former ambassador of the Ivory Coast to
Morocco. As of 2008, one of its most-popular programs was
Le Direct, a weekly animated satire of local and international events. It was a segment inserted inside
Il faut le dire..., an interview program which was presented by Claude-Frank About, a writer who was TV2's director from 2006 to 2011. It was introduced as part of a new schedule in March 2008. In April-May 2009, TV2's transmitter had its power cut, with its transmitter having less than 4 kW of power. The channel was rebranded RTI 2 in 2011; in Easter 2014 it started broadcasting its over-the-air signal to
Bouaké in the central area of the country, up until then the signal was limited to Abidjan. He was followed in 2025 by
Mariam Coulibaly. ==References==