DD Free Dish (previously known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...

satellite television Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commo ...

provider. DD Free Dish DTH service is owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster

Prasar Bharati Prasar Bharati (abbreviated as PB; Hindi: ''Praśar Bharati'', lit. Indian Broadcaster) is India's state-owned public broadcaster, headquartered in New Delhi. It is a statutory autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprises the ...

. 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 An online auction (also electronic auction, e-auction, virtual auction, or eAuction) is an auction held over the internet and accessed by internet connected devices. Similar to in-person auctions, online auctions come in a variety of types, with d ...

s. 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.

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 DD National (formerly DD1) is a state-owned public entertainment television channel in India. It is the flagship channel of Doordarshan, India's public service broadcaster, and the oldest and most widely available terrestrial television channe ...

– General entertainment channel * DD News – News channel *

DD Retro DD Retro is an Indian Hindi-language TV channel. It was launched by Prasar Bharati on 13 April 2020. It is a free-to-air general entertainment channel on which old classic shows of Doordarshan are telecasted, DD Retro channel has been added to ...

– Doordarshan's channel for re-run of its popular classic shows * 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 one HD channel in MPEG-4 format – * DD National HD – HD version of DD National

Parliamentary

Sansad TV ''Sansad'' or ''Sangsad'' is the word for "Assembly", association, council or "Parliament" in several Indo-Aryan languages, derived from a Sanskrit root. It may also mean: National parliament Bangladesh * Jatiya Sangsad ("National Parliament" ...

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

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

Private channels (MPEG-2)

Hindi general entertainment

Abzy Cool Abzy Cool is a Hindi language Entertainment Channel That Was Owned By Skystar Entertainment Pvt Ltd. Current Shows *'' Daravni Kahani'' *'' Om Namah Shivay'' Former Shows *''Aurat Teri Yehi Kahani'' *''Jap Tap Vrat'' *''Crime Stop'' *''Pyar ...

* Big Magic * Dangal * Dangal 2 * Enterr10 *

Ishara TV Ishara TV is an Indian Hindi language free-to-air general entertainment television channel owned by IN10 Media. The network's programming consists of family dramas, mythological shows, family dramas, romantic serials, thriller and crime seri ...

Shemaroo TV Shemaroo TV is an Indian Hindi-GEC free-to-air television channel owned by Shemaroo Entertainment Media Network. The channel was launched on 1 May 2020 for the entertainment of Indian audience. Current shows Original show * ''Waah bhai Waah'' ...

* Shemaroo Umang *

The Q Q is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet. Q may also refer to: People * Q, pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the Cornish writer * Q, pseudonym used by the originator of QAnon, an American far-right conspiracy theory * Q, pseud ...

Sports

* Sports18 Khel

Hindi Music

9XM 9XM is an Indian Hindi free-to-air music channel based in Mumbai. The channel is owned by 9X Media, an Indian television business. 9XM's programming is focused on Hindi-language music videos. The channel is available on all major dth platforms, ...

* B4U Music * Mastiii * MTV Beats * ShowBox * Zing

Hindi-language movies

* B4U Kadak * B4U Movies * Colors Cineplex Bollywood *

Colors Cineplex Superhits Colors Cineplex Superhits launched on 1 April 2022. Rishtey Cineplex got rebranded into Colors Cineplex Superhits. Earlier, the channel used to broadcast both Bollywood and South Indian movies dubbed in Hindi. But after the launch of Colors ...

* Dhamaka Movies B4U * Dhinchaak 2 * Goldmines * Goldmines Bollywood * Manoranjan TV * Movie Plus * Sony Wah * Star Utsav Movies *

Zee Anmol Cinema Zee TV (stylised as ZEE TV) is a Hindi general entertainment pay television channel in India. It was launched on 2 October 1992, as the first privately owned TV channel in the country. It is owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Zee TV als ...

Hindi-language news

Aaj Tak ''Aaj Tak'' () is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by TV Today Network, part of the New Delhi-based media conglomerate Living Media group (India Today Group) Aaj Tak HD On 14 December 2018, Aaj Tak launched India's first Hindi ...

ABP News ABP News is an Indian Hindi-language free-to-air television news channel owned by ABP Group. The news channel was launched in 1998 originally as STAR News before being acquired by ABP Group. It won the Best Hindi News Channel award in the 2 ...

* Good News Today * India News *

India TV India TV is a Hindi news channel based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. The channel was launched on 20 May 2004 by Rajat Sharma and wife Ritu Dhawan. The channel is a subsidiary of Independent News Service, which was co-founded by Sharma and Dha ...

NDTV India NDTV India (styled as NDTV इंडिया) is a Hindi news channel in India owned by New Delhi Television Limited. In June 2016, NDTV decided to launch two separate channels called NDTV India and NDTV Spice in the United Kingdom. Histor ...

* News 24 *

News Nation News Nation is an Indian free to air Hindi news television channel. News Nation is owned by News Nation Network Pvt Ltd. History “News Nation” is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned and promoted by News Nation Network Pvt Ltd wh ...

News18 India News18 India is an Indian Media television channel owned by Network 18. It was launched in 2005 as Channel 7 by Jagran Prakashan Limited and acquired in 2006 by Network 18 and rebranded IBN7. In 2016 it took its current name. In 2013, News ...

Republic Bharat Republic Bharat or R. Bharat is a free-to-air Indian Hindi-language news channel, launched on 2 February 2019. Arnab Goswami is the owner and editor-in-chief of Republic Bharat. It is also available on DD Free Dish. It is a sister channel o ...

* Times Now Navbharat * TV9 Bharatvarsh *

Zee Hindustan Zee Hindustan, a part of Essel Group, is a 24x7 national Hindi news channel. It has been launched as part of the Essel Group's efforts to establish a 'nationalist' news channel, in 2017. In 2018, the Essel Group announced that the channel woul ...

Zee News Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group. It launched on 27 August 1999 and is the flagship channel of the Zee Media Corporation. The channel has been involved in several controversies and ...

Devotional channels

* Aastha * Sanskar * Vedic

Bhojpuri

* B4U Bhojpuri – Movies *

Bhojpuri Cinema Bhojpuri cinema is an Indian film industry of Bhojpuri-language motion pictures. It is based in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh with major production centres in Lucknow and Patna. Bhojpuri cinema is a major part of Bihari cinema. The ...

– Movies * Filamchi Bhojpuri – Movies * Goldmines Bhojpuri – Movies * Manoranjan Grand – Kids * Manoranjan Prime – Movies * Zee Biskope – Movies *

Zee Ganga Zee Ganga is a Bhojpuri general entertainment channel. It was launched by Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL) as ''Big Ganga'' in 2013 but later acquired by ZEEL and they rebranded it as Zee Ganga in 2021. It is the only Bhojpuri channe ...

– GEC

Marathi

* Fakt Marathi – GEC * Shemaroo Marathibana – Movies *

Sun Marathi Sun Marathi is Marathi language free-to-air general entertainment channel owned by Sun TV Network Sun TV Network is an Indian mass media company headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a part of Sun Group and is one of Asia's ...

– GEC *

Zee Chitramandir Zee Marathi is an Indian general entertainment channel which carries programming in Marathi. It is owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The channel was launched on 15 August 1999 and was known as Alpha TV Marathi until 28 March 2005, then i ...

– Movies

Punjabi

* Manoranjan Movies – Movies * Popcorn Movies – Movies, Music and Hindi Devotional content * Zee Punjabi – GEC

Private channels (MPEG-4)

* Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional * BTV World – Bangladeshi channel * Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment * India News UP/UK – Hindi, regional news *

KBS World KBS World is the Korean Broadcasting System's international broadcasting service. It consists of KBS World Radio, KBS World television channel and KBS Korea. History The foreign-language radio broadcast from KBS (before its restructure into ...

– Korean channel *

Russia Today RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya (russian: Россия Сегодня) is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay television and free-to-air channel ...

– English, news *

Good News Today Aajtak Tez or Tez News renamed as Good News Today or GNT was 24-hour Hindi reality show channel owned by the TV Today Network, and a sister channel of Aaj Tak. Tez was running between 22 August 2005 and 4 September 2021. The channel has ren ...

– Hindi, regional news * News18 UP/UK – Hindi, regional news * Swaraj Express SMBC– Hindi, news * Samay – Hindi, news *

Sudarshan News Sudarshan News is an Indian right-wing news channel. It was founded in 2005 by Suresh Chavhanke, the chairman and editor-in-chief. Chavhanke was a long-term volunteer of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), also ...

– Hindi, news * Swadesh News – Hindi, news

Radio Station

National

Vividh Bharati The Vividh Bharati Service (VBS; ) of All India Radio was conceptualized to combat Radio Ceylon in 1967. Due to the Indian Government stopping its short wave relay centers, VBS is only available on the Internet. Vividh Bharati radio channel w ...

– 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 Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the ...

and

Kokborok Kokborok (also known as Tripuri or Tiprakok) is the main native language of the Tripuri people of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. Its name comes from ''kok'' meaning "verbal" and ''borok'' meaning "people" or ...

* AIR Aizawl –

Mizo Mizo may refer to: *Mizo people, an ethnic group native to north-eastern India, western Myanmar (Burma) and eastern Bangladesh *Mizo language, a language spoken by the Mizo people *Mizoram, a state in Northeast India *Lusei people, an ethnic group ...

* AIR Bhopal –

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of North India, northern, Central India, centr ...

* AIR Dehradun –

* AIR Gangtok –

Nepali Nepali or Nepalese may refer to : Concerning Nepal * Anything of, from, or related to Nepal * Nepali people, citizens of Nepal * Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken ...

* AIR Imphal – Manipuri * AIR Itanagar –

and

Nyishi The Nyishi community is the largest ethnic group in Arunachal Pradesh in north-eastern India. In Nyishi, ''Nyi'' refers to "a human" and the word ''shi'' denotes "highland".The Nyishis are mentioned as the Daflas in the contemporary Ahom do ...

* AIR Jaipur –

and Rajasthani *

AIR Jammu The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth protects life on Earth by creating pressure allowing for ...

–

Dogri Dogri ( Name Dogra Akkhar: ; Devanagari: डोगरी; Nastaliq: ; ) is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, with smaller groups of speakers in adjoining regions of western Himachal Pra ...

* AIR Kohima – Nagamese and

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national id ...

* AIR Leh –

Ladakhi Ladakhi can mean: * of, from, or related to Ladakh, a union territory in northern India * Ladakhi language, the Tibetic language spoken there * Ladakhis Ladakhis or Ladakhi people or Ladakspa are an ethnic group and first-language speakers of ...

and French * AIR Lucknow –

* AIR North East –

and

* AIR Panjim – Konkani * AIR Patna –

and

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

* AIR Port Blair –

* AIR Puducherry –

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nati ...

* AIR Raipur –

and

Chhattisgarhi Chhattisgarhi ( / ) is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by approximately 16 million people from Chhattisgarh & other states. It is mostly spoken in the Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra. It is closely related ...

* AIR Ranchi –

* AIR Rohtak –

and

Haryanvi Haryanvi ( ' or '), also known as Bangru, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the state of Haryana in India, and to a lesser extent in Delhi. Haryanvi is considered to be part of the dialect group of Western Hindi, which also includes Kharib ...

* AIR Shillong –

Khasi Khasi may refer to: * Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India * Khasi language, a major Austroasiatic language spoken in Meghalaya, India * Khāṣi language, an Indo-Aryan language of Jammu and Kashmir, India See also * Khasi Hills * G ...

Garo Garo may refer to: People and languages * Garo people, a tribal people in India ** Garo language, the language spoken by the Garo tribe Places * Kingdom of Garo, a former kingdom in southern Ethiopia * Garo, Colorado * Garo Hills, part of the ...

and

* AIR Shimla –

* AIR Srinagar –

Kashmiri Kashmiri may refer to: * People or things related to the Kashmir Valley or the broader region of Kashmir * Kashmiris, an ethnic group native to the Kashmir Valley * Kashmiri language, their language People with the name * Kashmiri Saikia Barua ...

and

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

* AIR Vijayawada –

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

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

References

External links

Official website
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