In December 1962, Sudan TV started
broadcasting in the
Khartoum region, and it was operated regularly in 1963. It was broadcast for at least 38 hours during the first few years. The signal was accessible in the three municipalities of greater
Khartoum,
Omdurman and
Khartoum Bahri. One year later, General
Mohamed Talat Fareed established the station as a national broadcaster and signed a contract with a West German broadcaster to provide technical support, cameras and recorders. In the 1970s, Sudan TV expanded its transmission range, when the General Company for Wireless and Wired Telecommunications built a satellite station. In 1976, Sudan TV started transmitting in colour. Analog broadcasting finally-ended in 2020, On 15 April 2023, the station abruptly stopped broadcasting when it was attacked by the paramilitary
Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the start of the
Sudanese civil war (2023-present). Its building was occupied by the RSF, who were subsequently besieged and evicted following heavy fighting by the
Sudanese Armed Forces in March 2024. The Ministry of Information said that the fighting had left the station devastated, with "extensive fire damage to the radio buildings, destruction of television studios, and the complete loss of new external broadcasting equipment" from theft or fire, in addition to the theft of all its vehicles. It temporary moved its studios and headquarter in
Port Sudan. ==Programming==