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DD Free Dish

DD Free Dish

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 Online auction.[2][3]

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Currently, DD Free Dish has 116 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 22 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

  • 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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Regional channels (MPEG-4)

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Private channels (MPEG-2)

General Entertainment

Kids

Sports

Music

Movies

News

Devotional

Regional Channels

Bengali
Bhojpuri
Kannada
  • Popular TV – GEC
Marathi
Punjabi
Tamil
  • Pear TV – GEC

International

Private channels (MPEG-4)

  • Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional
  • Abzy Cool – Hindi, infomercial
  • Abzy Movies – Hindi, movies
  • Bansal News – 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

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

  1. [1]
    "DD FreeDish auction: Prasar Bharati bags Rs 862 cr from sale of 46 MPEG-2 slots - Exchange4media". exchange4media. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  2. [2]
    "Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be Online auction to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  3. [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. [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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