DD Free Dish

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. 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.^[1]

DD Free Dish

Formerly	DD Direct Plus
Type	Central Public Sector Undertaking
Industry	Satellite television
Founded	16 December 2004; 18 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

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.^[2]

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 Retro – Doordarshan's channel for re-run of its popular classic shows^[3]
• DD Sports – Sports channel
• DD Urdu – State-owned Urdu-language infotainment channel (available in MPEG-4 format)
• DD Free Dish Home Channel – Provides information about DD Free Dish

Additionally, DD Free Dish has three HD channels in MPEG-4 format –

• DD National HD – HD version of DD National
• DD Sports HD — HD version of DD Sports
• DD India HD — HD version of DD India

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)

Name	Language	Region
DD Assam	Assamese	Assam
DD Bangla	Bengali	West Bengal
DD Chandana	Kannada	Karnataka
DD Girnar	Gujarati	Gujarat
DD Kashir	Kashmiri and Urdu	Jammu and Kashmir
DD Kerala	Malayalam	Kerala
DD Odia	Odia	Odisha
DD Podhigai	Tamil	Tamil Nadu
DD Punjabi	Punjabi	Punjab
DD Sahyadri	Marathi	Maharashtra
DD Saptagiri	Telugu	Andhra Pradesh
DD Yadagiri	Telugu	Telangana
DD Arun Prabha	Hindi and English	Arunachal Pradesh
DD Bihar	Hindi and Bihari	Bihar
DD Madhya Pradesh	Hindi	Madhya Pradesh
DD Rajasthan	Hindi and Rajasthani	Rajasthan
DD Uttar Pradesh	Hindi	Uttar Pradesh
DD Chhattisgarh	Hindi	Chhattisgarh
DD Jharkhand	Hindi	Jharkhand
DD Uttarakhand	Garhwali, Kumaoni and Hindi	Uttarakhand
DD Tripura	Bengali and Kokborok	Tripura

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

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

Private channels (MPEG-2)

Hindi general entertainment

• Abzy Cool
• Big Magic
• Dangal
• Dangal 2
• Enterr10
• Ishara TV
• Manoranjan Grand
• Nazara
• Shemaroo TV
• Shemaroo Umang
• The Q

Kids

• Unique TV
• Chumbak TV

Sports

• Sports18 Khel

Hindi Music

• 9XM
• B4U Music
• Mastiii
• MTV Beats
• ShowBox
• Zing

Hindi-language movies

• Abzy Movies
• B4U Kadak
• B4U Movies
• Colors Cineplex Bollywood
• Colors Cineplex Superhits
• Dhamaka Movies B4U
• Dhinchaak
• Goldmines
• Goldmines Bollywood
• Goldmines Movies
• Manoranjan TV
• Movie Plus
• Sony Wah
• Star Gold Thrills
• Star Utsav Movies
• Zee Anmol Cinema

Hindi-language news

• Aaj Tak
• ABP News
• Bharat24
• Good News Today
• India TV
• NDTV India
• News Nation
• News18 India
• Republic Bharat
• Times Now Navbharat
• TV9 Bharatvarsh
• Zee News

Devotional channels

• Aastha
• Sanskar

Assamese

• Popular TV

Bhojpuri

• B4U Bhojpuri – Movies
• Bhojpuri Cinema – Movies
• Filamchi Bhojpuri
• Manoranjan Prime – Movies
• Zee Biskope – Movies
• Zee Ganga – GEC

Marathi

• Fakt Marathi – GEC
• Shemaroo Marathibana – Movies
• Sun Marathi – GEC
• Zee Chitramandir – Movies

Punjabi

• Manoranjan Movies – Movies
• Zee Punjabi – GEC

International

• Russia Today – English News

Private channels (MPEG-4)

• Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional
• Aastha Gujarati — Gujarati, devotional
• Bansal News — Hindi, news
• BTV World – Bangladeshi channel
• Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment
• KBS World – Korean channel
• MH One Dil Se — Hindi, movies
• News State UP/UK – Hindi, regional news
• News18 UP/UK – Hindi, regional news
• Sudarshan News – Hindi, news
• Swadesh News – Hindi, news
• Vedic — Hindi, devotional

Radio Station

National

• Vividh Bharati – Hindi music radio channel
• AIR News – Hindi and English news radio
• AIR Urdu – Urdu entertainment and information radio channel
• AIR Raagam – Indian classical music radio channel
• Gyan Vani – Hindi and English educational channel

Regional

• AIR Assamese
• AIR Bangla
• AIR Gujarati
• AIR Hindi
• AIR Kannada
• AIR Malayalam
• AIR Marathi
• AIR Oriya
• AIR Punjabi
• AIR Tamil
• AIR Telugu
• AIR Agartala – Bengali and Kokborok
• AIR Aizawl – Mizo
• AIR Bhopal – Hindi
• AIR Dehradun – Hindi
• AIR Gangtok – Nepali
• AIR Imphal – Manipuri
• AIR Itanagar – Hindi and Nyishi
• AIR Jaipur – Hindi and Rajasthani
• AIR Jammu – Dogri
• AIR Kohima – Nagamese and English
• AIR Leh – Ladakhi and French
• AIR Lucknow – Hindi
• AIR North East – Hindi and English
• AIR Panjim – Konkani
• AIR Patna – Hindi and Bhojpuri
• AIR Port Blair – Hindi
• AIR Puducherry – Tamil
• AIR Raipur – Hindi and Chhattisgarhi
• AIR Ranchi – Hindi
• AIR Rohtak – Hindi and Haryanvi
• AIR Shillong – Khasi, Garo and English
• AIR Shimla – Hindi
• AIR Srinagar – Kashmiri and Urdu
• AIR Vijayawada – Telugu

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

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

• Direct-to-home television in India

References

1. "Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be Online auction to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
2. "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.
3. Quint, the (16 April 2020). "Doordarshan Launches DD Retro: Find Channel". The Quint. Retrieved 17 April 2020.

External links

• Official website
• GSAT 15 at Lyngsat