DD Free Dish (formerly known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian
state-owned
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free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...
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.ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems ...
provider owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster
Prasar Bharati. 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.
Currently, DD Free Dish has 184 television channel slots, among which 94 are in MPEG-2 format and 90 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
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DD Bharati
DD Bharati is an Indian state-owned art and culture television channel, founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is the flagship channel of Doordarshan was launched on 26 January 2002, by c ...
– State-owned art and cultural infotainment channel
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DD India
DD India, is an Indian state-owned international English language news and current affairs channel from India. The service is also aimed at the overseas market, similar to WION, CNN International, BBC News, DW, VOA, France24, NHK World-Ja ...
– State-owned international channel
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DD Kisan – Agriculture education and information channel
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DD National
DD National (formerly DD1) is an Indian state-owned entertainment television channel, founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is the flagshi ...
– General entertainment channel
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DD News
DD News is an Indian state-owned Hindi news television channel, founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is the flagship channel of Doordarshan. India's only 24-hour terrestrial TV news ...
– News channel
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DD Sports – Sports channel
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DD Urdu – State-owned Urdu-language infotainment channel (available in MPEG-4 format)
Parliamentary
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Sansad TV 1 – For proceedings of
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is Bicameralism, bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by a ...
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Sansad TV 2 – For proceedings of
Rajya Sabha
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High definition (HD) channels
DD Free Dish has seven HD channels in MPEG-4 format –
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DD National HD – HD version of DD National
*
DD India HD — HD version of DD India
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DD News HD — HD version of DD News
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DD Sports HD — HD version of DD Sports
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Sansad TV 1 HD — HD version of DD Sansad TV 1
*
Sansad TV 2 HD — HD version of DD Sansad TV 2
*
DD Tamil HD — HD version of DD Tamil
Regional channels (MPEG-2)
Regional channels (MPEG-4)
Private channels (MPEG-2)
Hindi
Regional channels
International
*
Russia Today – English News
Private channels (MPEG-4)
Radio stations
National
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Vividh Bharati – Hindi music radio channel
* AIR Live News – Hindi and English news radio
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AIR Raagam – Indian classical music radio channel
* Akashvani Aradhana – Hindi devotional radio channel
Regional
* AIR Andhra –
Telugu
* AIR Arunachal –
Hindi
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and
Nyishi
* AIR Assam –
Assamese
* AIR Bihar – Hindi and
Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri may refer to:
* Bhojpuri language, an Indo-Aryan language of India and Nepal
* Bhojpuri grammar, grammatical rules of the language
* Bhojpuri nouns, nouns of the language
* Bhojpuri people, people who speak the language
* Bhojpuri region ...
* AIR Chhattisgarh – Hindi and
Chhattisgarhi
* AIR Goa –
Konkani __NOTOC__
Konkani may refer to:
Language
* Konkani language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Konkan region of India.
* Konkani alphabets, different scripts used to write the language
**Konkani in the Roman script, one of the scripts used to ...
* AIR Gujarat –
Gujarati
* AIR Haryana – Hindi and
Haryanvi
* AIR Himachal –
Hindi
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* AIR Hindi
*
AIR Jammu –
Dogri
* AIR Jharkhand – Hindi
* AIR Karnataka –
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
* AIR Kerala –
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...
* AIR Ladakh –
Ladakhi and
French
* AIR Maharashtra –
Marathi
* AIR Manipur –
Manipuri
* AIR Meghalaya –
Khasi,
Garo and
English
* AIR Mizoram –
Mizo
* AIR MP –
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...
*
AIR Nagaland –
Nagamese and English
* AIR North East – Hindi and English
* AIR Odisha –
Odia
* AIR Port Blair – Hindi
* AIR Puducherry –
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
People, culture and language
* Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka
** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...
* AIR Punjab –
Punjabi
* AIR Rajasthan – Hindi and
Rajasthani
Rajasthani may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Rajasthan, a state of India
* Rajasthani languages, a group of Indic languages spoken there
* Rajasthani people, the native inhabitants of the state
* Rajasthani architecture, Indian ar ...
* AIR Sikkim –
Nepali
*
AIR Srinagar –
Kashmiri and
Urdu
Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...
* AIR Tamilnadu –
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
People, culture and language
* Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka
** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...
* AIR Telangana –
Telugu
* AIR Tripura –
Bengali and
Kokborok
Kokborok (or Tripuri) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. Its name comes from ''kók'' meaning "verbal" or "language" and ''borok'' meaning "people" or "human", It is one of the anci ...
* AIR UP –
Hindi
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* AIR Uttarakhand – Hindi
* AIR Varanasi – Hindi
* AIR West Bengal –
Bengali
MPEG-4 radio
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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
*
Direct-to-home television in India
References
External links
Official website
at Lyngsat
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2004 establishments in Delhi
Companies based in Delhi
Direct broadcast satellite services
Doordarshan
Free-to-air
Television networks in India
Indian direct broadcast satellite services
Indian companies established in 2004
Telecommunications companies established in 2004