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]
| Formerly | DD Direct Plus |
|---|---|
| Company type | Central Public Sector Undertaking |
| Industry | Satellite television |
| Founded | 16 December 2004 |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | SAARC |
| Services | |
| Owner | Prasar Bharati |
| Website | prasarbharati |
Currently, DD Free Dish has 117 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 23 channels in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.[4]
Television channels
Doordarshan
TV channels owned by Prasar Bharati -
National
- 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 (available in MPEG-4 format)
DD Free Dish has four 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
Parliamentary
- Sansad TV 1 – For proceedings of Lok Sabha
- Sansad TV 2 – For proceedings of Rajya Sabha
Regional channels (MPEG-2)
| Name | Language | Region |
|---|---|---|
| DD Arun Prabha | Hindi and English | Arunachal Pradesh |
| DD Assam | Assamese | Assam |
| DD Bangla | Bengali | West Bengal |
| DD Bihar | Hindi | Bihar |
| DD Chandana | Kannada | Karnataka |
| DD Chhattisgarh | Hindi | Chhattisgarh |
| DD Girnar | Gujarati | Gujarat |
| DD Himachal Pradesh | Hindi | Himachal Pradesh |
| DD Jharkhand | Hindi | Jharkhand |
| DD Kashir | Kashmiri and Urdu | Jammu and Kashmir |
| DD Madhya Pradesh | Hindi | Madhya Pradesh |
| DD Malayalam | Malayalam | Kerala |
| DD Odia | Odia | Odisha |
| DD Punjabi | Punjabi | Punjab |
| DD Rajasthan | Hindi and Rajasthani | Rajasthan |
| DD Sahyadri | Marathi | Maharashtra |
| DD Saptagiri | Telugu | Andhra Pradesh |
| DD Tamil | Tamil | Tamil Nadu |
| DD Tripura | Bengali and Kokborok | Tripura |
| DD Uttar Pradesh | Hindi | Uttar Pradesh |
| DD Uttarakhand | Garhwali, Kumaoni and Hindi | Uttarakhand |
| DD Yadagiri | Telugu | Telangana |
Regional channels (MPEG-4)
Private channels (MPEG-2)
General Entertainment
Kids
- Unique TV
- Chumbak TV
- Gubbare
- Shemaroo Kids
Sports
Music
Movies
- All Time Movies
- B4U Kadak
- B4U Movies
- Colors Cineplex Bollywood
- Colors Cineplex Superhits
- Goldmines
- Goldmines Bollywood
- Goldmines Movies
- Sony Max 2
- Sony Wah
- Star Gold 2
- Star Gold Romance
- Star Gold Select
- Star Gold Thrills
- Star Utsav Movies
- Zee Action
- Zee Anmol Cinema
- Zee Anmol Cinema 2
- Zee Bollywood
- Zee Classic
- Shemaroo Bollywood
- Shemaroo Classic
- Shemaroo Movies
News
Devotional
Regional Channels
Bengali
- Movie Plus - Movies
- Shemaroo Bengali
Bhojpuri
- B4U Bhojpuri – Movies
- Bhojpuri Cinema – Movies
- Filamchi Bhojpuri – Movies
- Manoranjan Prime – Movies
- Zee Biskope – Movies
- Shemaroo Bhojpuri
Marathi
- Fakt Marathi – GEC
- Sun Marathi – GEC
- Zee Chitramandir – Movies
- Zee Marathi
- Star Prahav
- Colours marathi
- DD Sadharai
- DD Gaova
- Zee 24Tass
- IBN 18 लोकमत
- Shemaroo Marathibana
Punjabi
- Manoranjan Movies – Movies
- Zee Punjabi – GEC
- Shemaroo Punjabi
International
- Russia Today – English News
Private channels (MPEG-4)
- Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional
- Bharat24 – Hindi, news
- BTV World – Bangladeshi channel
- Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment
- KBS World – Korean channel
- News18 UP/UK – Hindi, regional news
- Sudarshan News – Hindi, news
- VTV News – Gujarati, news
Radio Station
National
- 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
- 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
- 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
Other channels
e-Vidya Channels
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
Swayam Prabha DTH
- 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
- 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
- Digi Shala
See also
References
External links
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