DD Free Dish
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| Industry | Satellite television |
|---|---|
| Founded | 16 December 2004 |
| Headquarters | |
| Services | |
| Owner | Prasar Bharati |
| Website | prasarbharati |
DD Free Dish (formerly known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian state-owned free-to-air satellite television provider owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster Prasar Bharati.[1] It was launched in December, 2004. In March 2022, It has a reach of over 43 million households which is more than 25% of the total TV households in the country. DD Free Dish earns by selling slots to private broadcasters through e-auction.[2][3]
Currently, DD Free Dish has 184 television channel slots, among which 94 are in MPEG-2 format and 69 are in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.[4]
Television channels
[edit]Doordarshan
[edit]TV channels owned by Prasar Bharati:
National
[edit]- DD Bharati – State-owned art and cultural infotainment channel
- DD India – State-owned international channel
- DD Kisan – Agriculture education and information channel
- DD National – General entertainment channel
- DD News – News channel
- DD Sports – Sports channel
- DD Urdu – State-owned Urdu-language infotainment channel
Parliamentary
[edit]- Sansad TV 1 – For proceedings of Lok Sabha
- Sansad TV 2 – For proceedings of Rajya Sabha
High definition (HD) channels
[edit]DD Free Dish has eleven HD channels in MPEG-4 format –
- DD National HD – HD version of DD National
- DD India HD — HD version of DD India
- DD News HD — HD version of DD News
- DD Sports HD — HD version of DD Sports
- Sansad TV 1 HD — HD version of DD Sansad TV 1
- Sansad TV 2 HD — HD version of DD Sansad TV 2
- DD Kisan HD — HD version of DD Kisan
- DD Tamil HD — HD version of DD Tamil
- DD Sahyadri HD — HD version of DD Sahyadri
- DD Girnar HD — HD version of DD Girnar
- DD Odia HD — HD version of DD Odia
Regional channels (MPEG-2)
[edit]Regional channels (MPEG-4)
[edit]| Name | Language | Region |
|---|---|---|
| DD Goa | Hindi and Konkani | Goa |
| DD Haryana | Hindi and Haryanvi | Haryana |
| DD Manipur | Manipuri | Manipur |
| DD Meghalaya | Khasi and Garo | Meghalaya |
| DD Mizoram | Mizo | Mizoram |
| DD Nagaland | English | Nagaland |
Private channels (MPEG-2)
[edit]Hindi
[edit]Regional channels
[edit]| Language | Channel | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Bhojpuri | B4U Bhojpuri | Movies |
| Bhojpuri Cinema | ||
| Epic Bhojpuri | ||
| Zee Biskope | ||
| Marathi | Fakt Marathi | GEC |
| Sun Marathi | ||
| TV9 Marathi | News | |
| Punjabi | Manoranjan Movies | Movies |
| GTC Punjabi | ||
| PTC Punjabi | ||
| PTC News | News |
International
[edit]| Language | Channel | Category |
|---|---|---|
| English | Russia Today | News |
Private channels (MPEG-4)
[edit]| Language | Channel | Category |
|---|---|---|
| National | ||
| Hindi | Aastha Bhajan | Devotional |
| Satsang | ||
| Vedic | ||
| Manoranjan Prime | GEC | |
| MH One | Movies | |
| MH One Dil Se | ||
| Bansal News | News | |
| Bharat Express | ||
| Bharat24 | ||
| India Daily Live | ||
| Live Times | ||
| Living India News | ||
| MH One News | ||
| Nation 27 | ||
| News India 24x7 | ||
| Sudarshan News | ||
| TNP News | ||
| English | Republic TV | News |
| International | ||
| English | KBS World | Korean |
| Regional | ||
| Assamese | NE News | News |
| Prag News | ||
| Rengoni | GEC | |
| Bangla | Republic Bangla | News |
| Bhojpuri | Captain (earlier Raapchik) | Movies |
| Epic Bhojpuri | ||
| Oscar Movies | ||
| Pasand | Entertainment | |
| Gujarati | Aastha Gujarati | Devotional |
| Gujarat First | News | |
| Sandesh News | ||
| TV9 Gujarati | ||
| VTV News | ||
| Zee 24 Kalak | ||
| Hindi (MP,CG) | Vistaar News | News |
| Kannada | Aastha Kannada | Devotional |
| Public TV | News | |
| Republic Kannada | ||
| TV9 Kannada | ||
| Marathi | Jai Maharashtra | News |
| Odia | Argus News | News |
| Punjabi | Chardikla Time TV | News and entertainment |
| Telugu | Aastha Telugu | Devotional |
| TV9 Telugu | News | |
Radio stations
[edit]National
[edit]- Vividh Bharati – Hindi music radio channel
- AIR Live News – Hindi and English news radio
- AIR Raagam – Indian classical music radio channel
- Akashvani Aradhana – Hindi devotional radio channel
Regional
[edit]- AIR Andhra – Telugu
- AIR Arunachal – Hindi and Nyishi
- AIR Assam – Assamese
- AIR Bihar – Hindi and Bhojpuri
- AIR Chhattisgarh – Hindi and Chhattisgarhi
- AIR Goa – Konkani
- AIR Gujarat – Gujarati
- AIR Haryana – Hindi and Haryanvi
- AIR Himachal – Hindi
- AIR Hindi
- AIR Jammu – Dogri
- AIR Jharkhand – Hindi
- AIR Karnataka – Kannada
- AIR Kerala – Malayalam
- AIR Ladakh – Ladakhi and French
- AIR Maharashtra – Marathi
- AIR Manipur – Manipuri
- AIR Meghalaya – Khasi, Garo and English
- AIR Mizoram – Mizo
- AIR MP – Hindi
- AIR Nagaland – Nagamese and English
- AIR North East – Hindi and English
- AIR Odisha – Odia
- AIR Port Blair – Hindi
- AIR Puducherry – Tamil
- AIR Punjab – Punjabi
- AIR Rajasthan – Hindi and Rajasthani
- AIR Sikkim – Nepali
- AIR Srinagar – Kashmiri and Urdu
- AIR Tamilnadu – Tamil
- AIR Telangana – Telugu
- AIR Tripura – Bengali and Kokborok
- AIR UP – Hindi
- AIR Uttarakhand – Hindi
- AIR Varanasi – Hindi
- AIR West Bengal – Bengali
MPEG-4 radio
[edit]- FM Gold Delhi
- FM Rainbow Delhi
- AIR Darbhanga
- AIR Nazibabad
- AIR World Service 1
- AIR World Service 2
- AIR N'hood Service 1
- AIR N'hood Service 2
- Aaj Tak Radio
Educational channels
[edit]e-Vidya Channels
[edit]There are 12 educational channels, one for each class from Class 1 to Class 12.
- e-Vidya 1 – For Class 1 students
- e-Vidya 2 – For Class 2 students
- e-Vidya 3 – For Class 3 students
- e-Vidya 4 – For Class 4 students
- e-Vidya 5 – For Class 5 students
- e-Vidya 6 – For Class 6 students
- e-Vidya 7 – For Class 7 students
- e-Vidya 8 – For Class 8 students
- e-Vidya 9 – For Class 9 students
- e-Vidya 10 – For Class 10 students
- e-Vidya 11 – For Class 11 students
- e-Vidya 12 – For Class 12 students
- SP-01 CEC-UGC : Vageesh - language and literature
- SP-02 CEC-UGC : Sanskriti - history, culture and philosophy
- SP-03 CEC-UGC : Prabodh - social and behaviour sciences
- SP-04 CEC-UGC : Saaraswat - education and home sciences
- SP-05 CEC-UGC : Prabandhan - information, communication and management studies
- SP-06 CEC-UGC : Vidhik - law and legal studies
- SP-07 CEC-UGC : Kautilya - economics and commerce
- SP-08 CEC-UGC : Aryabhatt - physical and earth sciences
- SP-09 CEC-UGC : Spandan - life sciences
- SP-10 CEC-UGC : Daksh - applied sciences
- SP-11 NPTEL : Chemical Engineering
- SP-12 NPTEL : Civil Engineering
- SP-13 NPTEL : Computer Science Engineering
- SP-14 NPTEL : Electrical Engineering and Electronics Communication Engineering
- SP-15 NPTEL : Engineering Sciences and Biological Sciences
- SP-16 NPTEL : Humanities, Social Sciences and Management
- SP-17 NPTEL : Mechanical Engineering and Mining Engineering
- SP-18 NPTEL : Mathematics and Physics
- SP-19 IIT-PAL : Biology
- SP-20 IIT-PAL : Chemistry
- SP-21 IIT-PAL : Mathematics
- SP-22 IIT-PAL : Physics
- SP-23 IGNOU : Liberal Arts and Humanities
- SP-24 IGNOU : Agriculture and Allied Sciences
- SP-25 IGNOU : Gyan Darshan 1
- SP-26 IGNOU : State Open Universities
- SP-27 NIOS : Panini - Secondary School Education
- SP-28 NIOS : Sharda - Higher Secondary School Education
- SP-29 UGC-INFLIBNET : e-PG Pathshala - Post Graduate Courses
- SP-30 NIOS : Gyanamrit - Education in Sign Language
- SP-31 NCERT : Kishore Manch - Secondary School, Higher Secondary School and Teacher Education
- SP-32 IGNOU-NIOS : Vagda - Teacher Education
- SP-33 CEC-UGC : Vyas - Higher Education Channel
- Digi Shala - Digital Education Channel
VANDE Gujarat
[edit]- VANDE Gujarat 1
- VANDE Gujarat 2
- VANDE Gujarat 3
- VANDE Gujarat 4
- VANDE Gujarat 5
- VANDE Gujarat 6
- VANDE Gujarat 7
- VANDE Gujarat 8
- VANDE Gujarat 9
- VANDE Gujarat 10
- VANDE Gujarat 11
- VANDE Gujarat 12
- VANDE Gujarat 13
- VANDE Gujarat 14
- VANDE Gujarat 15
- VANDE Gujarat 16
Other channels
[edit]- Digi Shala
- DD Sathee 1
- DD Sathee 2
- DD Sathee 3
- DD Sathee 4
- DD Sathee 5
- DD Sathee 6
- DD Sathee 7
- DD Kite Victors (Malayalam language channel)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "DD FreeDish auction: Prasar Bharati bags Rs 862 cr from sale of 46 MPEG-2 slots - Exchange4media". exchange4media. 24 February 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be Online auction to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Farooqui, Javed (9 August 2023). "TRAI seeks views on regulating DD Free Dish". The Economic Times. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "One class, One channel started on DD Free dish under PM e-Vidhya Program". Blog on DD Free dish. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- GSAT 15 at Lyngsat
