DD Free Dish (previously known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA Receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring ...

satellite television Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna comm ...

provider. DD Free Dish DTH service is owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster

Prasar Bharati Prasar Bharati (abbreviated as PB; Hindi: ''Praśar Bharati'', lit. Indian Broadcaster) is India's State media, state-owned public broadcaster, headquartered in New Delhi. It is a Statutory corporation, statutory autonomous body set up by an A ...

. 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-auctions. Currently, DD Free Dish has 116 television channels, among which 94 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.

Television channels

Doordarshan

TV channels owned by Prasar Bharati -

National

* DD Bharati – State-owned art and cultural infotainment channel *

DD India DD India is an international state-owned English language news and current affairs channel from India. The service is also aimed at the overseas market, similar to WION, CNN International, BBC World News, DW, TV5Monde, VOA, NHK World, Arirang ...

– State-owned international channel * DD Kisan – Agriculture education and information channel *

DD National DD National (formerly DD1) is a state-owned public entertainment television channel in India. It is the flagship channel of Doordarshan, India's public service broadcaster, and the oldest and most widely available terrestrial television channel ...

– General entertainment channel *

DD News DD News is an Indian news channel of Doordarshan, it is India's only 24-hour terrestrial TV news channel broadcasting solely in Hindi, and formerly in English. The Prasar Bharati Board approved the proposal to start a 24-hour news channel in p ...

– News channel * DD Retro – Doordarshan's channel for re-run of its popular classic shows *

DD Sports DD Sports is an Indian sports channel telecasting from Central Production Centre Delhi, India. It is a part of the Doordarshan family of networks, and is the main public sports broadcaster in India. History DD Sports was launched on 18 March ...

– Sports channel *

DD Urdu DD Urdu is an Indian free-to-air television channel broadcasting from the Doordarshan Studios in Delhi. It broadcasts entertainment, cultural , news and infotainment Infotainment (a portmanteau of ''information'' and ''entertainment''), al ...

– State-owned Urdu-language infotainment channel (available in MPEG-4 format) * DD Free Dish Home Channel – Provides information about DD Free Dish Additionally, DD Free Dish has one HD channel in MPEG-4 format – * DD National HD – HD version of DD National

Parliamentary

Sansad TV ''Sansad'' or ''Sangsad'' is the word for "Assembly", association, council or "Parliament" in several Indo-Aryan languages, derived from a Sanskrit root. It may also mean: National parliament Bangladesh * Jatiya Sangsad ("National Parliament" of ...

– 2 channels of the same name with same content feed, except when the proceedings of the parliament is in place, for which separate feeds are aired.

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

Private channels (MPEG-2)

Hindi general entertainment

Abzy Cool Abzy Cool is a Hindi language Entertainment Channel That Was Owned By Skystar Entertainment Pvt Ltd. Current Shows *'' Daravni Kahani'' *'' Om Namah Shivay'' Former Shows *''Aurat Teri Yehi Kahani'' *'' Jap Tap Vrat'' *'' Crime Stop'' *'' Py ...

* Big Magic * Dangal *

Dangal 2 Dangal 2 is an Indian Hindi entertainment channel that was owned by Enterr10 Television Network. This channel shows repeated programmes from Hindi Entertainment Channel Dangal and acquired shows from old Hindi Entertainment Channel Imagine T ...

Enterr10 Enter 10 Television Private Limited (also known as Enterr10 Television, formerly Enterr10 Television Network) is an Indian mass media company headquartered at Mumbai. History The network launched on October 15, 2004. In 2009, another channe ...

Ishara TV Ishara TV is an Indian Hindi language free-to-air general entertainment television channel owned by IN10 Media. The network's programming consists of family dramas, mythological shows, family dramas, romantic serials, thriller and crime ser ...

* Shemaroo TV *

Shemaroo Umang Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. is an Indian content creator, aggregator and distributor, specifically in the media and entertainment industry. It was founded by Buddhichand Maroo in 1962 as a book circulating library under the name Shemaroo and s ...

* The Q

Sports

* Sports18 Khel

Hindi Music

* 9XM *

B4U Music B4U Music is an Indian Hindi music channel owned by the B4U Network Limited. The channel broadcasts a mixture of contemporary Bollywood, Indipop, Bhangra and international music. Programs include celebrity interviews, artist profiles, concerts ...

* Mastiii *

MTV Beats MTV India is an Indian pay television channel specialising in music, reality and youth culture programming. It was launched in 1996 as the Indian version of MTV and is owned by Viacom 18, a joint venture operation between MTV International own ...

ShowBox Showbox Co., Ltd. () is one of the largest film distribution companies in South Korea, founded in 1999. Showbox is the film investment, production and distribution branch of Mediaplex, Inc., entertainment arm of Orion Group. Its main competito ...

Zing Zing or ZING may refer to: *Zing (model-checker), infrastructure for verification of concurrent software via model checking *Zing (punctuation) or irony punctuation, invented by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s *Zing (quartet), the 2010 S ...

Hindi-language movies

* B4U Kadak *

B4U Movies B4U Movies is a Free to Air Indian movie digital TV channel based in Mumbai available on more than 8 different satellites, in more than 100 countries including the US, UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Mauritius, Canada, and India. The channel ...

Colors Cineplex Bollywood Colors Cineplex Bollywood is a Hindi language movie channel in India, owned by Viacom 18. this movie channel primarily focuses only on Bollywood movies and it became the third movie channel after Colors Cineplex and Rishtey Cineplex from the s ...

* Colors Cineplex Superhits * Dhamaka Movies B4U * Dhinchaak 2 * Goldmines * Goldmines Bollywood * Manoranjan TV * Movie Plus *

Sony Wah Sony Max (known popularly as Set Max) is an Indian pay television entertainment channel which is a sister channel to Sony Entertainment Television, operated by Culver Max Entertainment. The channel started broadcasting on 20 July 1999 and is a ...

Star Utsav Movies StarPlus is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. The network's programming consists of Soap opera, family dramas, ...

Zee Anmol Cinema Zee TV (stylised as ZEE TV) is a Hindi general entertainment pay television channel in India. It was launched on 2 October 1992, as the first privately owned TV channel in the country. It is owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Zee TV also ...

Hindi-language news

Aaj Tak ''Aaj Tak'' () is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by TV Today Network, part of the New Delhi-based media conglomerate Living Media group (India Today Group) Aaj Tak HD On 14 December 2018, Aaj Tak launched India's first Hindi h ...

ABP News ABP News is an Indian Hindi-language free-to-air television news channel owned by ABP Group. The news channel was launched in 1998 originally as STAR News before being acquired by ABP Group. It won the Best Hindi News Channel award in the 21st ...

* Good News Today * India News *

India TV India TV is a Hindi news channel based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. The channel was launched on 20 May 2004 by Rajat Sharma and wife Ritu Dhawan. The channel is a subsidiary of Independent News Service, which was co-founded by Sharma and Dha ...

NDTV India NDTV India (styled as NDTV इंडिया) is a Hindi news channel in India owned by New Delhi Television Limited. In June 2016, NDTV decided to launch two separate channels called NDTV India and NDTV Spice in the United Kingdom. Histor ...

* News 24 *

News Nation News Nation is an Indian free to air Hindi news television channel. News Nation is owned by News Nation Network Pvt Ltd. History “News Nation” is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned and promoted by News Nation Network Pvt Ltd wh ...

News18 India News18 India is an Indian Media television channel owned by Network 18. It was launched in 2005 as Channel 7 by Jagran Prakashan Limited and acquired in 2006 by Network 18 and rebranded IBN7. In 2016 it took its current name. In 2013, News18 ...

Republic Bharat Republic Bharat or R. Bharat is a free-to-air Indian Hindi-language news channel, launched on 2 February 2019. Arnab Goswami is the owner and editor-in-chief of Republic Bharat. It is also available on DD Free Dish. It is a sister channel of Rep ...

* Times Now Navbharat *

TV9 Bharatvarsh TV9 Bharatvarsh, launched on 30 March 2019, is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by the TV9 Network. It became the No. 2 popular Hindi news channel within a year. TV9 Bharatvarsh appointed Barun Das as CEO in 2019. It has been doing 24/ ...

Zee Hindustan Zee Hindustan, a part of Essel Group, is a 24x7 national Hindi news channel. It has been launched as part of the Essel Group's efforts to establish a 'nationalist' news channel, in 2017. In 2018, the Essel Group announced that the channel woul ...

Zee News Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group. It launched on 27 August 1999 and is the flagship channel of the Zee Media Corporation. The channel has been involved in several controversies and has ...

Devotional channels

* Aastha *

Sanskar Samskara (IAST: , sometimes spelled ''samskara'') are sacraments in Hinduism and other Indian religions, described in ancient Sanskrit texts, as well as a concept in the karma theory of Indian philosophies. The word literally means "putting to ...

* Vedic

Bhojpuri

* B4U Bhojpuri – Movies *

Bhojpuri Cinema Bhojpuri cinema is an Indian film industry of Bhojpuri-language motion pictures. It is based in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh with major production centres in Lucknow and Patna. Bhojpuri cinema is a major part of Bihari cinema. The f ...

– Movies * Filamchi Bhojpuri – Movies * Goldmines Bhojpuri – Movies * Manoranjan Grand – Kids * Manoranjan Prime – Movies *

Zee Biskope Zee Ganga is a Bhojpuri general entertainment channel. It was launched by Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL) as ''Big Ganga'' in 2013 but later acquired by ZEEL and they rebranded it as Zee Ganga in 2021. It is the only Bhojpuri channe ...

– Movies * Zee Ganga – GEC

Marathi

* Fakt Marathi – GEC *

Shemaroo Marathibana Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. is an Indian content creator, aggregator and distributor, specifically in the media and entertainment industry. It was founded by Buddhichand Maroo in 1962 as a book circulating library under the name Shemaroo and s ...

– Movies *

Sun Marathi Sun Marathi is Marathi language free-to-air general entertainment channel owned by Sun TV Network Sun TV Network is an Indian mass media company headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of Sun Group and is one of Asia's ...

– GEC * Zee Chitramandir – Movies

Punjabi

* Manoranjan Movies – Movies * Popcorn Movies – Movies, Music and Hindi Devotional content *

Zee Punjabi Zee Punjabi is an Indian free to air television channel and satellite television channel from Punjab, India. This channel is a part of Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It is of Punjabi language. It is the first-ever General Entertainment Channel ...

– GEC

Private channels (MPEG-4)

* Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional *

BTV World BTV World ( bn, বিটিভি ওয়ার্ল্ড) is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel owned by the state-owned Bangladesh Television. It began operations on 11 April 2004 via the AsiaSat 3 satell ...

– Bangladeshi channel * Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment * India News UP/UK – Hindi, regional news *

KBS World KBS World is the Korean Broadcasting System's international broadcasting service. It consists of KBS World Radio, KBS World television channel and KBS Korea. History The foreign-language radio broadcast from KBS (before its restructure into a ...

– Korean channel *

Russia Today RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya (russian: Россия Сегодня) is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay television and free-to-air channels ...

– English, news * Good News Today – Hindi, regional news * News18 UP/UK – Hindi, regional news * Swaraj Express SMBC– Hindi, news * Samay – Hindi, news * Sudarshan News – Hindi, news * Swadesh News – Hindi, news

Radio Station

National

Vividh Bharati The Vividh Bharati Service (VBS; ) of All India Radio was conceptualized to combat Radio Ceylon in 1967. Due to the Indian Government stopping its short wave relay centers, VBS is only available on the Internet. Vividh Bharati radio channel w ...

– Hindi music radio channel * AIR News – Hindi and English news radio * AIR Urdu – Urdu entertainment and information radio channel * AIR Raagam – Indian classical music radio channel *

Gyan Vani Gyan Vani is an educational FM radio station in several cities of India. Description Gyan Vani is an educational FM radio station in several cities of India. Gyan Vani stations operate as a media cooperative with the day-to-day programmes being ...

– Hindi and English educational channel

Regional

* 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 Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

and

Kokborok Kokborok (also known as Tripuri or Tiprakok) is the main native language of the Tripuri people of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. Its name comes from ''kok'' meaning "verbal" and ''borok'' meaning "people" or ...

* AIR Aizawl – Mizo * AIR Bhopal –

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

* AIR Dehradun –

* AIR Gangtok – Nepali * AIR Imphal – Manipuri * AIR Itanagar –

and

Nyishi The Nyishi community is the largest ethnic group in Arunachal Pradesh in north-eastern India. In Nyishi, ''Nyi'' refers to "a human" and the word ''shi'' denotes "highland".The Nyishis are mentioned as the Daflas in the contemporary Ahom docu ...

* AIR Jaipur –

and

Rajasthani Rajasthani may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Rajasthan, a state of India * Rajasthani languages, a group of languages spoken there * Rajasthani people, the native inhabitants of the region * Rajasthani architecture * Rajasthani art ...

* AIR Jammu –

Dogri Dogri ( Name Dogra Akkhar: ; Devanagari: डोगरी; Nastaliq: ; ) is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, with smaller groups of speakers in adjoining regions of western Himachal Prad ...

* AIR Kohima – Nagamese and

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

* AIR Leh – Ladakhi and French * AIR Lucknow –

* AIR North East –

and

* AIR Panjim – Konkani * AIR Patna –

and

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

* AIR Port Blair –

* AIR Puducherry –

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...

* AIR Raipur –

and Chhattisgarhi * AIR Ranchi –

* AIR Rohtak –

and

Haryanvi Haryanvi ( ' or '), also known as Bangru, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the state of Haryana in India, and to a lesser extent in Delhi. Haryanvi is considered to be part of the dialect group of Western Hindi, which also includes Kharibo ...

* AIR Shillong –

Khasi Khasi may refer to: * Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India * Khasi language, a major Austroasiatic language spoken in Meghalaya, India * Khāṣi language, an Indo-Aryan language of Jammu and Kashmir, India See also * Khasi Hills * Gh ...

Garo Garo may refer to: People and languages * Garo people, a tribal people in India ** Garo language, the language spoken by the Garo tribe Places * Kingdom of Garo, a former kingdom in southern Ethiopia * Garo, Colorado * Garo Hills, part of the Ga ...

and

* AIR Shimla –

AIR Srinagar All India Radio Srinagar (AIR Srinagar) is a public radio station operating in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. All India Radio Srinagar broadcasts in Kashmiri, Urdu and Hindi languages. Formerly known as Radio Kashmir Srinagar, it was rename ...

–

Kashmiri Kashmiri may refer to: * People or things related to the Kashmir Valley or the broader region of Kashmir * Kashmiris, an ethnic group native to the Kashmir Valley * Kashmiri language, their language People with the name * Kashmiri Saikia Baruah ...

and

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

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

References

External links

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