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DD Free Dish

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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]

DD Free Dish
FormerlyDD Direct Plus
Company typeCentral Public Sector Undertaking
IndustrySatellite television
Founded16 December 2004; 19 years ago (2004-12-16)
Headquarters
New Delhi, India
Area served
SAARC
Services
OwnerPrasar Bharati
Websiteprasarbharati.gov.in/free-dish

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

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Doordarshan

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TV channels owned by Prasar Bharati -

National

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  • 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

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  • Sansad TV – 2 channels are broadcast with the same content feed, except when the proceedings of the parliament is in place, for which separate feeds are aired.

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

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NameLanguageRegion
DD Arun PrabhaHindi and EnglishArunachal Pradesh
DD AssamAssameseAssam
DD BanglaBengaliWest Bengal
DD BiharHindiBihar
DD ChandanaKannadaKarnataka
DD ChhattisgarhHindiChhattisgarh
DD GirnarGujaratiGujarat
DD Himachal PradeshHindiHimachal Pradesh
DD JharkhandHindiJharkhand
DD KashirKashmiri and UrduJammu and Kashmir
DD Madhya PradeshHindiMadhya Pradesh
DD MalayalamMalayalamKerala
DD OdiaOdiaOdisha
DD PunjabiPunjabiPunjab
DD RajasthanHindi and RajasthaniRajasthan
DD SahyadriMarathiMaharashtra
DD SaptagiriTeluguAndhra Pradesh
DD TamilTamilTamil Nadu
DD TripuraBengali and KokborokTripura
DD Uttar PradeshHindiUttar Pradesh
DD UttarakhandGarhwali, Kumaoni and HindiUttarakhand
DD YadagiriTeluguTelangana

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

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NameLanguageRegion
DD GoaKonkaniGoa
DD HaryanaHindi and HaryanviHaryana
DD JharkhandHindiJharkhand
DD ManipurManipuriManipur
DD MeghalayaKhasi and GaroMeghalaya
DD MizoramMizoMizoram
DD NagalandEnglishNagaland

Private channels (MPEG-2)

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General Entertainment

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Kids

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Sports

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Music

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Movies

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News

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Devotional

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Regional Channels

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Bengali
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Bhojpuri
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Kannada
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  • Popular TV – GEC
Marathi
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Punjabi
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International

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Private channels (MPEG-4)

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  • Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional
  • Bansal News – Hindi, news
  • Bharat24 – Hindi, news
  • BTV World – Bangladeshi channel
  • Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment
  • India News – Hindi, news
  • KBS World – Korean channel
  • News18 UP/UK – Hindi, regional news
  • Sudarshan News – Hindi, news
  • VTV News – Gujarati, news

Radio Station

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National

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  • 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

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MPEG-4 radio

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Other channels

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e-Vidya Channels

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "DD FreeDish auction: Prasar Bharati bags Rs 862 cr from sale of 46 MPEG-2 slots - Exchange4media". exchange4media. 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.
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