DD Saptagiri previously known as DD-8 (

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: దూరదర్శన్ సప్తగిరి) is a state-owned television channel telecasting in the

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from a studio at

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Kendra

Vijayawada Vijayawada, formerly known as Bezawada, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is a part of the state's Capital Region. It is the administrative headquarters of the NTR district. Its metropolitan region comprises N ...

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t ...

, India. The studio was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Shri

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, on 27 September 2014. In addition to terrestrial over-the-air transmission, the DD Vijayawada studio programmes are beamed through

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(DTH) and cable networks. Doordarshan Kendra Vijayawada’s Regional Network in Telugu took on a new identity as "DD Saptagiri", on 27 September 2014. This service is viewed in India and some other parts of the world. The channel is named after the seven hills surrounding the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple in

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at the south of the state ('Sapta' in Sanskrit means seven and 'Giri' means mountain or hill).

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Doordarshan

was the only television channel broadcast from Andhra Pradesh after bifurcation of the state. Its programmes are aimed mainly at 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh. Since the '90s, DD Vijayawada has been a small studio facility through which programmes based on coastal Andhra are produced and used to be aired weekly once through DDK Hyderabad. It was launched by Andhra Pradesh CM Nara Chandhra Babu Naidu and Union Minister of Urban Development Shri

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on 27 September 2014. Venkaiah Naidu announced that the All India Radio Bhavan here was named

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Bhavan.

Frequency and satellite details from DD Free Dish

INSAT-4B (C-BAND)93.5E 4060 MHZ Horizontal, symbol rate- 4250, INSAT-4B (KU) 93.5E 11150 V 27500

Channel details from APSFL

Channel 064 on

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References

External links

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Doordarshan Official Internet site

Doordarshan news site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dd Saptagiri Telugu-language television channels Foreign television channels broadcasting in the United Kingdom Television channels and stations established in 1977 Direct broadcast satellite services Indian direct broadcast satellite services Doordarshan Television stations in Andhra Pradesh Television stations in Vijayawada

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Frequency and satellite details from DD Free Dish

Channel details from APSFL

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