DD Assam is a state-owned Indian
TV channel. It telecasts from
Doordarshan
Doordarshan (abbreviated as DD; Hindi: , ) is an Indian public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions. One of India's largest bro ...
Kendra
Assam, situated at
Guwahati. DD Assam is available on DD Free dish DTH, at channel 52. Assam Doordarshan can reach almost 83% of the population and almost 79% the area.
History
In India, the first telecast was in 1965, with
Aakashbani later. In 1976 it became independent as Doordarshan. DD Assam 24 x 7 satellite channel was launched on 4 August 2020 by the then Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar. It was done through video conferencing from New Delhi.
Regional News Unit (RNU)
DD News has 31 functional Regional News Units / Bureaus which are broadcasting over 140 news bulletins in 22 languages/dialects with a consolidated more than 49 hours of daily telecast of bulletins and programmes. RNUs besides producing regional news also cater to DD News in Reporting, Visual feeds & Special Programming. All the States have a Regional News Unit (RNU), except Sikkim. Jammu and Kashmir has 2 RNUs, while there is one in Leh for Ladakh UT. Over 900 stringers are working for the DD News Network, across the country in all districts. RNU are headed by an
Indian Information Service
The Indian Information Service (IIS) ( hi, भारतीय सूचना सेवा) is the central civil service under Group A and Group B of the Central Civil Services of India, Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Gove ...
Officer (IIS) officer. He or she is responsible for functioning of the RNU including bulletins, budget / finance, coordination and other administrative issues. News Editors are posted in RNU to mount the news bulletins / programmes, assignment coordination, social media handling, and to assist Head of RNU in the financial and administrative works.
RNU also engages the services of Reporters, Stringers, Camerapersons, Copy Editors, Assistant News Editors,
Video Editors, Graphics Editors, News Readers, Website Assistants on casual assignments to mount the News Bulletins / Programmes.
Bulletin/News run by DD News Assam (RNU)
The new daily news Timings are as follows :
Programming
*''News''
*''Borgeet''
*''Chah Gashar Maje Maje (Tea Garden Programme)''
*''Geetmala''
*''Krishi Darsan''
*''Rupali Dhow''
RNU Head and News Editor
# Maruf Alam, IIS RNU Head
and News Editor
# Santanu Rowmuria, IIS News Editor
See also
*
List of programs broadcast by DD National
*
All India Radio
*
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
*
DD Direct Plus
*
List of South Asian television channels by country
References
External links
Doordarshan news siteAn article at PFC
{{Terrestrial television channels of India
Doordarshan
Foreign television channels broadcasting in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Indian direct broadcast satellite services
Mass media in Assam
Television stations in Guwahati
1994 establishments in Assam