DD Free Dish

DD Free Dish

Formerly	DD Direct Plus
Company type	Central Public Sector Undertaking
Industry	Satellite television
Founded	16 December 2004;20 years ago (2004-12-16)
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
Area served	SAARC
Services	Satellite Streaming television
Owner	Prasar Bharati
Website	prasarbharati.gov.in/free-dish

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. ^[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 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. ^[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)

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 Grinar
• DD Odia HD — HD version of DD Odia

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

Name	Language	Region
DD Assam	Assamese	Assam
DD Bangla	Bengali	West Bengal
DD Tripura	Bengali and Kokborok	Tripura
DD Bihar	Hindi	Bihar
DD Chhattisgarh		Chhattisgarh
DD Himachal Pradesh		Himachal Pradesh
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	Telugu	Andhra Pradesh
DD Yadagiri		Telangana

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

Name	Language	Region
DD Goa	Hindi and Konkani	Goa
DD Haryana	Hindi and Haryanvi	Haryana
DD Manipur	Manipuri	Manipur
DD Meghalaya	Khasi and Garo	Meghalaya
DD Mizoram	Mizo	Mizoram
DD Nagaland	English	Nagaland

Private channels (MPEG-2)

Hindi

Category	Channel
General entertainment	Big Magic
	Colors Rishtey
	Dangal
	Dangal 2
	Manoranjan Grand
	Manoranjan TV
	Nazara
	The Q
	Shemaroo TV
	Shemaroo Umang
	Sony Pal
	Star Utsav
	Sun Neo
	Zee Anmol
Kids	Unique TV
Music	B4U Music
	Mastiii
	ShowBox
Movies	All Time Movies
	B4U Kadak
	B4U Movies
	Colors Cineplex Bollywood
	Colors Cineplex Superhits
	Goldmines
	Goldmines Bollywood
	Goldmines Movies
	Shemaroo Josh
	Sony Wah
	Star Utsav Movies
	Zee Action
	Zee Anmol Cinema
	Zee Anmol Cinema 2
News	Aaj Tak
	ABP News
	Bharat Express
	Good News Today
	India News
	India TV
	NDTV India
	News 24
	News Nation
	News18 India
	Republic Bharat
	Times Now Navbharat
	TV9 Bharatvarsh
	Zee News
Devotional	Aastha
	Sadhna TV
	Sanskar
	Satsang

Regional channels

Language	Channel	Category
Bhojpuri	B4U Bhojpuri	Movies
	Bhojpuri Cinema
	Filamchi Bhojpuri
	Zee Biskope
Marathi	Fakt Marathi
	Shemaroo Marathibana
	Sun Marathi	GEC
	TV9 Marathi	News
	Zee Chitramandir	Movies
Punjabi	Manoranjan Movies

International

• Russia Today – English News

Private channels (MPEG-4)

Language	Channel	Category
Hindi	Aastha Bhajan	Devotional
	Bansal News	News
	Bharat24
	Live Times
	Living India News
	MH One	Movies
	MH One Dil Se
	MH One News	News
	Sudarshan News
	TNP News
International	BTV News	Bangladeshi
	KBS World	Korean
Assamese	Prag News	News
	Rengoni	GEC
Bhojpuri	Dabangg	Movies
	Oscar Movies
	Raapchik
	Pasand	Entertainment
Gujarati	Aastha Gujarati	Devotional
	Sandesh News	News
	TV9 Gujarati
	VTV News
	Zee 24 Kalak
Kannada	Aastha Kannada	Devotional
Marathi	Jai Maharashtra	News
	Maiboli	Music
Odia	Argus News	News
Punjabi	Chardikla Time TV	News and entertainment
	Punjabi Hits	Music
	Tabbar Hits	Entertainment
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

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

1. "DD FreeDish auction: Prasar Bharati bags Rs 862 cr from sale of 46 MPEG-2 slots - Exchange4media". exchange4media. 24 February 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
2. "Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be Online auction to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
3. Farooqui, Javed (9 August 2023). "TRAI seeks views on regulating DD Free Dish". The Economic Times. ISSN   0013-0389 . Retrieved 22 March 2024.
4. "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