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. 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 95 are in MPEG-2 format and 91 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 – 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
- Sansad TV 1 – For proceedings of Lok Sabha
- Sansad TV 2 – For proceedings of Rajya Sabha
High definition (HD) channels
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)
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!Name
!Language
!Region
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|DD Assam
|Assamese
|Assam
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|DD Bangla
|Bengali
|West Bengal
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|DD Tripura
|Bengali and Kokborok
|Tripura
|-
|DD Bihar
| rowspan="6" |Hindi
|Bihar
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|DD Chhattisgarh
|Chhattisgarh
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|DD Himachal Pradesh
|Himachal Pradesh
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|DD Jharkhand
|Jharkhand
|-
|DD Madhya Pradesh
|Madhya Pradesh
|-
|DD Uttar Pradesh
|Uttar Pradesh
|-
|DD Arun Prabha
|Hindi and English
|Arunachal Pradesh
|-
|DD Rajasthan
|Hindi and Rajasthani
|Rajasthan
|-
|DD Uttarakhand
|Garhwali, Kumaoni and Hindi
|Uttarakhand
|-
|DD Kashir
|Kashmiri and Urdu
|Jammu and Kashmir
|-
|DD Chandana
|Kannada
|Karnataka
|-
|DD Girnar
|Gujarati
|Gujarat
|-
|DD Malayalam
|Malayalam
|Kerala
|-
|DD Odia
|Odia
|Odisha
|-
|DD Punjabi
|Punjabi
|Punjab
|-
|DD Tamil
|Tamil
|Tamil Nadu
|-
|DD Saptagiri
| rowspan="2" |Telugu
|Andhra Pradesh
|-
|DD Yadagiri
|Telangana
|}
Regional channels (MPEG-4)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Name
!Language
!Region
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|DD Goa
|Hindi and Konkani
|Goa
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|DD Haryana
|Hindi and Haryanvi
|Haryana
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|DD Manipur
|Manipuri
|Manipur
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|DD Meghalaya
|Khasi and Garo
|Meghalaya
|-
|DD Mizoram
|Mizo
|Mizoram
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|DD Nagaland
|English
|Nagaland
|-
|}
Private channels (MPEG-2)
Hindi
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Category
!Channel
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|rowspan="14"|General entertainment
| Big Magic
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| Colors Rishtey
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| Dangal
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| Dangal 2
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| Manoranjan Grand
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| Manoranjan TV
|-
| [Epic Bharat]
|-
| The Q
|-
| Shemaroo TV
|-
| Shemaroo Umang
|-
| Sony Pal
|-
| Star Utsav
|-
| Sun Neo
|-
| Zee Anmol
|-
|rowspan="1"|Kids
| Unique TV
|-
|rowspan="2"|Music
| B4U Music
|-
| Epic Music
|-
|rowspan="14"|Movies
| All Time Movies
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| B4U Kadak
|-
| B4U Movies
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| Colors Cineplex Bollywood
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| Colors Cineplex Superhits
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| Goldmines
|-
| Goldmines Bollywood
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| Goldmines Movies
|-
| Shemaroo Josh
|-
| Sony Wah
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| Star Utsav Movies
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| Zee Action
|-
| Zee Anmol Cinema
|-
| Zee Anmol Cinema 2
|-
|rowspan="14"|News
| Aaj Tak
|-
| ABP News
|-
| Bharat Express
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| Good News Today
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| India News
|-
| India TV
|-
| NDTV India
|-
| News18 India
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| News 24
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| News Nation
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| Republic Bharat
|-
| Times Now Navbharat
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| TV9 Bharatvarsh
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| Zee News
|-
|rowspan="4"|Devotional
| Aastha
|-
| Sadhna TV
|-
| Sanskar
|-
| Satsang
|-
|}
Regional channels
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!Language
!Channel
!Category
|-
|rowspan="4"|Bhojpuri
| B4U Bhojpuri || rowspan="4"| Movies
|-
| Bhojpuri Cinema
|-
| Filamchi Bhojpuri
|-
| Zee Biskope
|-
|rowspan="5"|Marathi
| Fakt Marathi ||rowspan="3" | GEC
|-
| Shemaroo Marathibana
|-
| Sun Marathi
|-
| TV9 Marathi || News
|-
| Zee Chitramandir || Movies
|-
| Punjabi
| Manoranjan Movies || Movies
|-
|}
International
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Language
!Channel
!Category
|-
| English
| Russia Today || News
|-
|}
Private channels (MPEG-4)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!style="background:brown;"|Language
!style="background:brown;"|Channel
!style="background:brown;"|Category
|-
|style="background:lightblue;", colspan="3", align=center|National
|-
|rowspan="9"|Hindi
| Bansal News || rowspan="7"|News
|-
| Bharat24
|-
| Live Times
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| Living India News
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| MH One News
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| Sudarshan News
|-
| TNP News
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| MH One || rowspan="2"|Movies
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| MH One Dil Se
|-
|style="background:lightblue;", colspan="3", align=center|International
|-
| English || KBS World || Korean
|-
|style="background:lightblue;", colspan="3", align=center|Regional
|-
| rowspan="2"|Assamese
| Prag News || News
|-
| Rengoni || GEC
|-
| rowspan="3"|Bhojpuri
| Oscar Movies || rowspan="2"|Movies
|-
| Captain (earlier Raapchik)
|-
| Pasand || Entertainment
|-
| rowspan="5"|Gujarati
| Aastha Gujarati || Devotional
|-
| Sandesh News || rowspan="4"|News
|-
| TV9 Gujarati
|-
| VTV News
|-
| Zee 24 Kalak
|-
| rowspan="3" | Kannada
| Aastha Kannada || Devotional
|-
|TV9 Kannada
|News
|-
|Public TV
|News
|-
| Marathi
| Jai Maharashtra || News
|-
| Odia
| Argus News || News
|-
| Punjabi
| Chardikla Time TV || News and entertainment
|-
| rowspan="2"|Telugu
| TV9 Telugu || News
|-
| Aastha Telugu || Devotional
|-
|}
Radio stations
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
- Aaj Tak Radio
Educational 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
Other channels
- 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
- Direct-to-home television in India
References
External links
- Official website
- GSAT 15 at Lyngsat