RTV Slovenia's Regional Broadcasting Centre at Koper-Capodistria was established in 1949 as a multilingual radio station, broadcasting Slovene, Croatian and Italian language programmes. In a period marked by a tense political situation over the new Slovene-Italian border, Radio Koper-Capodistria provided an important cultural bridge between the inhabitants of both territorial zones, two states and three nations, and its popularity later grew as it succeeded in its mission to inform as well as educate and entertain the Slovene minority in Italy and the Italian minority in Slovenia. During the 1960s it became a platform for the development of the local TV station.

Today the main goal of the Centre is to disseminate information and develop a creative cultural programme in a way which reinforces the notion of an open border. It achieves this through the programmes of Radio Koper-Capodistria and TV Koper-Capodistria, which both play a special role in the border region, connecting the inhabitants of Slovenia, Italy and Croatia via an information and cultural service.