DD 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. 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.

Currently, DD Free Dish has 184 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 90 channels in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.

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

High definition (HD) channels

DD Free Dish has seven HD channels in MPEG-4 format –

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

Private channels (MPEG-2)

General Entertainment

Kids

Music

Movies

News

Devotional

Regional channels

Bhojpuri
Marathi
Punjabi

International

Private channels (MPEG-4)

  • Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional
  • Aastha Gujarati – Gujarati, devotional
  • Aastha Kannada – Kannada, devotional
  • Aastha Telugu – Telugu, devotional
  • Bansal News – Hindi, news
  • Bharat24 – Hindi, news
  • BTV News – Bangladeshi channel
  • Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment
  • Gangaur Television – Rajasthani, entertainment
  • Jai Maharashtra – Marathi, news
  • KBS World – Korean channel
  • Live Times – Hindi, news
  • Maiboli – Marathi, music
  • MH One – Punjabi, GEC
  • MH One Dil Se – Bhojpuri, music
  • MH One News – Hindi, news
  • Oscar Movies – Bhojpuri, movies
  • Pasand – Hindi/Bhojpuri, movies
  • Prag News – Assamese, news
  • Raapchik – Bhojpuri, movies
  • Rengoni – Assamese, GEC
  • Sharnam TV – Hindi, devotional
  • Shraddha MH One – Hindi, devotional
  • Sudarshan News – Hindi, news
  • TV9 Gujarati – Gujarati, news
  • TV9 Telugu – Telugu, news
  • VTV News – Gujarati, news
  • Zee 24 Kalak – Gujarati, news

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

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

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