Indian free-to-air satellite television service
DD Free Dish (formerly known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian free-to-air satellite television provider owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster Prasar Bharati.[1] 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.[2][3]
Currently, DD Free Dish has 117 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 23 channels in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.[4]
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 (available in MPEG-4 format)
DD Free Dish has four HD channels in MPEG-4 format –
Parliamentary
Regional channels (MPEG-2)
Regional channels (MPEG-4)
Private channels (MPEG-2)
General Entertainment
Kids
Sports
Music
Movies
News
Devotional
Regional Channels
Bengali
Bhojpuri
Marathi
Punjabi
International
Private channels (MPEG-4)
- Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional
- Bharat24 – Hindi, news
- BTV World – Bangladeshi channel
- Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment
- KBS World – Korean channel
- News18 UP/UK – Hindi, regional news
- Sudarshan News – Hindi, news
- VTV News – Gujarati, news
Radio Station
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
MPEG-4 radio
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
References
- ^ "DD FreeDish auction: Prasar Bharati bags Rs 862 cr from sale of 46 MPEG-2 slots - Exchange4media". exchange4media. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be Online auction to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Farooqui, Javed (9 August 2023). "TRAI seeks views on regulating DD Free Dish". The Economic Times. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "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.
External links
- Official website
- GSAT 15 at Lyngsat