DD Free Dish
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Formerly | DD Direct Plus |
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Industry | Satellite television |
Founded | 16 December 2004 |
Headquarters | |
Area served | SAARC |
Owner | |
Website | doordarshan |
DD Free Dish (previously known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian free-to-air satellite television provider. It is owned by state broadcaster Doordarshan. It has a reach of over 40 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-auctions.[1]
Currently, DD Free Dish have 110 TV channels, among which 88 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 22 channels in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.[2]
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 Retro - Doordarshan's channel for re-run of its popular classic shows[3]
- DD Sports - Sports channel
- DD Urdu - State-owned Urdu-language infotainment channel
Additionally, DD Free Dish has two channels in MPEG-4 format –
- DD Free Dish Home Channel - Provides information about DD Free Dish
- DD National HD - HD version of DD National
Parliamentary[edit]
Regional Channels (MPEG-2)[edit]
Regional Channels (MPEG-4)[edit]
Name | Language | Region |
---|---|---|
DD Goa | Konkani | Goa |
DD Haryana | Hindi & Haryanvi | Haryana |
DD Himachal Pradesh | Hindi | Himachal Pradesh |
DD Manipur | Manipuri | Manipur |
DD Meghalaya | Khasi & Garo | Meghalaya |
DD Mizoram | Mizo | Mizoram |
DD Nagaland | English | Nagaland |
Private Channels (MPEG-2)[edit]
Hindi General Entertainment[edit]
Youth-oriented GEC[edit]
Hindi Music[edit]
Hindi-language Movies[edit]
- ABZY Movies
- B4U Kadak
- B4U Movies
- Bflix Movies
- Colors Cineplex Bollywood
- Dhinchaak
- Dhinchaak 2
- Enterr10 Movies
- Maha Movie
- Manoranjan TV
- Movie Plus
- Rishtey Cineplex
- Sony Wah
- Star Utsav Movies
- Zee Anmol Cinema
Hindi-language News[edit]
- Aaj Tak
- Aajtak Tez
- ABP News
- India TV
- NDTV India
- News Nation
- News18 India
- Republic Bharat
- TV9 Bharatvarsh
- Zee Hindustan
- Zee News
Devotional channel[edit]
Bhojpuri[edit]
- ABZY Dhakad - Movies
- B4U Bhojpuri - Movies
- Bhojpuri Cinema - Movies
- Big Ganga - GEC
- Dabangg - Movies
- Filamchi - Movies
- Manoranjan Grand - Movies
- Zee Biskope - Movies
Marathi[edit]
- Fakt Marathi - GEC
- Shemaroo Marathibana - Movies
- Zee Chitramandir - Movies
Punjabi[edit]
- Manoranjan Movies - Movies
- Zee Punjabi - GEC
Private Channels (MPEG-4)[edit]
- BTV World - Bangladeshi
- Chardikla Time TV - Punjabi, News and Entertainment
- I Love - Hindi, Music
- India News - Hindi, News
- India News UP/Uk - Hindi, Regional News
- Jantantra TV - Hindi, News
- KBS World - Korean
- News 24 - Hindi, News
- News India 24×7 - Hindi, News
- News State UP/Uk - Hindi, Regional News
- News18 UP/Uk - Hindi, Regional News
- Samay National - Hindi, News
- Sudarshan News - Hindi, News
- Zee 24 Kalak - Gujarati, News
- Zee Business - Hindi, News
Radio Station[edit]
National[edit]
- Vividh Bharati - Hindi Music Radio channel
- AIR Live News 24×7 - Hindi & English News Radio
- Urdu service - Urdu Entertainment & Information Radio channel
- Raagam - Indian Classical Music Radio channel
- Gyan Vani - Hindi & English Educational channel
Regional[edit]
- AIR Assamese
- AIR Bangla
- AIR Gujarati
- AIR Hindi
- AIR Kannada
- AIR Malayalam
- AIR Marathi
- AIR Oriya
- AIR Punjabi
- AIR Tamil
- AIR Telugu
- AIR Agartala - Bengali & Kokborok
- AIR Aizawl - Mizo
- AIR Bhopal - Hindi
- AIR Dehradun - Hindi
- AIR Gangtok - Nepali
- AIR Imphal - Manipuri
- AIR Itanagar - Hindi & Nyishi
- AIR Jaipur - Hindi & Rajasthani
- AIR Jammu - Dogri
- AIR Kohima - Nagamese & English
- AIR Leh - Ladakhi & French
- AIR Lucknow - Hindi
- AIR North East - Hindi & English
- AIR Panjim - Konkani
- AIR Patna - Hindi & Bhojpuri
- AIR Port Blair - Hindi
- AIR Puducherry - Tamil
- AIR Raipur - Hindi & Chhattisgarhi
- AIR Ranchi - Hindi
- AIR Rohtak - Hindi & Haryanvi
- AIR Shillong - Khasi, Garo & English
- AIR Shimla - Hindi
- AIR Srinagar - Kashmiri & Urdu
- AIR Vijayawada - Telugu
MPEG-4 Radio[edit]
- FM Gold Delhi
- FM Rainbow Delhi
- RJ1VBS
- RJ2VBS
- AIR World Service 1
- AIR World Service 2
- AIR N'hood Service 1
- AIR N'hood Service 2
Others 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
Swayam Prabha DTH[edit]
- SP-01 CEC-UGC : Vageesh - Language & Literature
- SP-02 CEC-UGC : Sanskriti - History, Culture & Philosophy
- SP-03 CEC-UGC : Prabodh - Social & Behaviour Sciences
- SP-04 CEC-UGC : Saaraswat - Education & Home Sciences
- SP-05 CEC-UGC : Prabandhan - Information, Communication & Management Studies
- SP-06 CEC-UGC : Vidhik - Law & Legal Studies
- SP-07 CEC-UGC : Kautilya - Economics & Commerce
- SP-08 CEC-UGC : Aryabhatt - Physical & 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 & Electronics Communication Engineering
- SP-15 NPTEL : Engineering Sciences & Biological Sciences
- SP-16 NPTEL : Humanities, Social Sciences & Management
- SP-17 NPTEL : Mechanical Engineering & Mining Engineering
- SP-18 NPTEL : Mathematics & 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 & Humanities
- SP-24 IGNOU : Agriculture & 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 & 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
- Digi Shala
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be e-auctioned to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Quint, By the (16 April 2020). "Doordarshan Launches DD Retro: Find Channel". The Quint. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
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