DD Free Dish

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 approximately 50 million households which is 25% of the total TV households in the country, DD Free Dish is earning Rs.400 crore annually with just 40 employees.[1]

DD Free Dish
Formerly
DD Direct Plus
Public
IndustrySatellite television
Founded16 December 2004 (2004-12-16)
Headquarters
New Delhi
Area served
SAARC
OwnerDoordarshan, Prasar Bharati
Websitedoordarshan.gov.in/dd-free-dish

Television channels

Doordarshan

TV channels owned by Prasar Bharti -

National
  • DD National - General entertainment channel
  • DD Retro - Doordarshan's channel for re-run of its popular classic shows[2]
  • DD Kisan - Agriculture education and information channel
  • DD News - News channel
  • DD India - State-owned international channel
  • DD Sports - Sports channel
  • DD Bharati - State-owned art and cultural infotainment channel
  • DD Urdu - State-owned Urdu-language infotainment channel

Parliamentary

Regional
Name Language Region
DD Assam Assamese Assam
DD Bangla Bengali West Bengal
DD Chandana Kannada Karnataka
DD Girnar Gujarati Gujarat
DD Kashir Kashmiri & Urdu Jammu and Kashmir
DD Malayalam Malayalam Kerala
DD Odia Odia Odisha
DD Podhigai Tamil Tamil Nadu
DD Punjabi Punjabi Punjab
DD Sahyadri Marathi Maharashtra
DD Saptagiri Telugu Andhra Pradesh
DD Yadagiri Telugu Telangana
DD Arun Prabha Hindi & English Arunachal Pradesh
DD Bihar Hindi & Bihari Bihar
DD Madhya Pradesh Hindi Madhya Pradesh
DD Rajasthan Hindi & Rajasthani Rajasthan
DD Uttar Pradesh Hindi Uttar Pradesh

State Network
Name Language Region
DD Chhattisgarh Hindi Chhattisgarh
DD Jharkhand Hindi Jharkhand
DD Uttarakhand Hindi Uttarakhand
DD Manipur Manipuri Manipur
DD Meghalaya Khasi & Garo Meghalaya
DD Mizoram Mizo Mizoram
DD Nagaland English Nagaland
DD Tripura Bengali & Kokborok Tripura

Private

Hindi General Entertainment

Youth-oriented GEC
  • Zing

Hindi music

Hindi-language Movies

Hindi-language News

Devotional channel

Bhojpuri

Marathi

Punjabi

Tests
  • Test 502

Radio channels

National
  • 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

MPEG-4 Channels

Doordarshan Channels

SD Channels

International Channels

HD Channels

Radio Channels
  • FM Gold Delhi
  • FM Rainbow Delhi
  • RJ1VBS
  • RJ2VBS
  • RJ3VBS
  • MP1VBS
  • MP2VBS
  • MP3VBS

Swayam Prabha DTH
  • 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

DishTV FTA Channels
  • Zee 24 Kalak
  • Zee 24 Taas
  • Zee Bihar Jharkhand
  • Zee Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh
  • Zee Odisha
  • Zee Punjab Haryana Himachal
  • Zee Rajasthan
  • Zee Salaam
  • Zee Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand

See also

References
  1. "Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be e-auctioned to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  2. Quint, By the (16 April 2020). "Doordarshan Launches DD Retro: Find Channel". The Quint. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  3. "Live Today Free-To-Air channel added on DD Free dish MPEG-4 Slot". DD Free Dish Hindi Blog. 16 May 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
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