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	'''DD Free Dish''' (~~previously~~ known as '''DD Direct Plus''') is an ]n ] digital ] ] ~~service. It is~~ owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster ] ~~(])~~. It has a reach of ~~approximately~~ 30 million households which is 15 % of the total TV ~~Households~~ in the country.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/pmi-2017/media/slots-on-dd-free-dish-to-be-e-auctioned-to-private-channels/articleshow/67557721.cms\|title=~~Slots~~ on ~~Doordarshan~~ Free Dish ~~to be e~~-~~auctioned~~ ~~to private channels~~\|date=~~2019~~-01-16\|work=The Economic Times\|~~access-date~~=~~2019~~-~~02-09~~}}</ref>		'''DD Free Dish''' (formerly known as '''DD Direct Plus''') is an Indian ] ] ] provider owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster ].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=DD FreeDish auction: Prasar Bharati bags Rs 862 cr from sale of 46 MPEG-2 slots - Exchange4media \|url=https://www.exchange4media.com/media-tv-news/dd-freedish-auction-prasar-bharati-bags-rs-862-cr-from-sale-of-46-mpeg-2-slots-132738.html \|access-date=2024-03-22 \|website=exchange4media \|language=en}}</ref> 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 ].<ref>{{Cite news \|date=2019-01-16 \|title=Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be Online auction to private channels \|work=The Economic Times \|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/pmi-2017/media/slots-on-dd-free-dish-to-be-e-auctioned-to-private-channels/articleshow/67557721.cms \|access-date=2022-01-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|last=Farooqui \|first=Javed \|date=2023-08-09 \|title=TRAI seeks views on regulating DD Free Dish \|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/trai-seeks-views-on-regulating-dd-free-dish/articleshow/102547579.cms?from=mdr \|access-date=2024-03-22 \|work=The Economic Times \|issn=0013-0389}}</ref>

			Currently, DD Free Dish has 177 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 83 channels in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.freedish.in/2020/09/pm-evidya-for-class-1-to-12th-12.html\|title=One class, One channel started on DD Free dish under PM e-Vidhya Program\|date=2020-09-02\|work=Blog on DD Free dish\|access-date=2020-09-02}}</ref>
	It is the only free-to-air satellite television service in India. After upgrade, ] satellite at 93.5° was used to broadcast 64 FTA MPEG-2 Channels and 29 radio channels.

			==Television channels==
	With the latest upgrade, to ] at 93.5° on 1 February 2016, the present capacity is likely to be enhanced to 104 SDTV channels and 40 Radio channels in near future with the introduction of new ], ] stream. DD Free Dish DTH viewers can watch 80 SD MPEG-2 TV channels and 18 SD MPEG-4 channels apart from 40 radio channels. New logo for DD Free Dish was added on its transponders on 29 October 2014.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.dishtracking.com/forum/dd-free-dish-logo-add-dd-channel-t-26936.html \|title=DD Free Dish logo add DD Channel \|publisher=forum.dishtracking.com \|date= \|accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> DD Free Dish also offers its slots to private channels.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/dd-to-offer-its-satellite-network-to-private-channels/articleshow/67549356.cms\|title=DD to offer its satellite network to private channels - Times of India\|website=The Times of India\|access-date=2019-02-09}}</ref>
			===Doordarshan===
			TV channels owned by Prasar Bharati:

			====National====
	At this time DD Free Dish TV channels can be received by using simple free to air set-top boxes with DVB-S and DVB-S2 technology. Now a days many free to air set-top box are available. Recently Prasar Bharati selected few Indian manufacturers to produce iCAS enabled set-top box with MPEG-4 technology. Free to air set-top box can be bought online as well as in offline markets.
			* ] – State-owned art and cultural infotainment channel
			* ] – State-owned international channel
			* ] – Agriculture education and information channel
			* ] – General entertainment channel
			* ] – News channel
			* ] – Sports channel
			* ] – State-owned Urdu-language infotainment channel (available in MPEG-4 format)

			====Parliamentary====
	There is no monthly charges to access DD Free Dish DTH service. This is India's only free DTH (direct-to-home) service.
			* ] – For proceedings of Lok Sabha
			* ] – For proceedings of Rajya Sabha

			====High definition (HD) channels====
	==Channels==
			DD Free Dish has seven HD channels in MPEG-4 format –
	DD Free Dish offers FTA services consisting Doordarshan channels and some private TV channels. In recent time, it also offers Swayam Prabha's 34 Educational channels.
	Private TV channels are added through e-auctions.

			* ] – HD version of DD National
	In latest 38th e-auction, there is big change in channels. Many private companies off their FTA channels like ], ], ]{{dn\|date=March 2019}} and ] from DD Free Dish. In 38th e-auction total 40 private channels got a slot within 8 are new channels.
			* ] — HD version of DD India
			* ] — HD version of DD News
			* ] — HD version of DD Sports
			* ] — HD version of DD Sansad TV 1
			* ] — HD version of DD Sansad TV 2
			* ] — HD version of DD Tamil

			====Regional channels (MPEG-2)====
	Currently DD Free Dish has 80 ] TV Channels (7+2+28 ] channels, 40 Private TV channels, 3 test slots), 20 ] TV channels (18 SD + 2 HD) and 40 ] channels & 4 DWDS Channels.

	==Doordarshan==
	===National===
	* ] - State-owned Hindi GEC
	* ] - Hindi News Channel
	* ] - English News Channel
	* ] - State-owned Sports Channel
	* ] - Art & Cultural Infotainment Channel
	* ] - Agricultural Infotainment Channel
	* ] - Urdu Infotainment Channel

	===Parliamentary===
	* ]
	* ]

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	===~~Hindi~~ ~~Movies~~===		===Private channels (MPEG-2)===

	* ]
			====General Entertainment====
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	* B4U KADAK(LAUNCH 31 MAY 2019 REPLACE MOVIE HOUSE)
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	===~~Hindi Music~~===		====Kids====
			* ]
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			====Sports====
			* ]

			====Music====
	* ]		* ]
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	* ]
			====Movies====
			* ]
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			* Goldmines
			* Goldmines Bollywood
			* Goldmines Movies
			* ]
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			* ]

	===~~Youth~~===		====News====
	* ] - Music & Youth Channel

	===Sports===
	* ]

	===Hindi News===
	* ]		* ]
	* ]		* ]
	* ]		* ]
			* India Daily Live
	* ]		* ]
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			====Devotional====
	==Regional TV Channels==
			* ]
	===Bhojpuri===
			* Sadhna TV
	* B4U BHOJPURI- Movies ChChannel(LAUNCH 15 MAY 2019 REPLACE ASHIRWAD)
			* ]
	* ] - Movies Channel
	* ] - GEC Channel
	* ] - Movies Channel

	===~~Marathi~~===		====Regional channels ====
	* ] - GEC Channel

	===~~Punjabi~~===		=====Bengali=====
	* ] - Movies ~~Channel~~		* ] - Movies
	* ] - Music & Movies Channel

	===~~Rajasthan~~===		=====Bhojpuri=====
			* ] – Movies
	* ] - Hindi News Channel
			* ] – Movies
			* ] – Movies
			* ] – Movies

			=====Marathi=====
	===Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand===
			* ] – GEC
	* ] - Hindi News Channel
			* ] – Movies
	* ] - Hindi News Channel

	===~~DEVOTIONAL CHANNEL~~===		=====Punjabi=====
			* ] – Movies
	* AASTHA TV
			* ] – GEC
	* SANSKAR
	* VEDIC

			====International====
	===Foreign language (including English)===
			* ] – English News
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	* RT
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			===Private channels (MPEG-4)===
	==All India Radio==
			* Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional
			* Bharat24 – Hindi, news
			* ] – Bangladeshi channel
			* Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment
			* ] – Korean channel
			* ] – Hindi, regional news
			* ] – Hindi, news
			* VTV News – Gujarati, news

			==Radio stations==
	===National===		===National===
	* ] - Hindi ~~Music~~ ~~Radio~~		* ] – Hindi music radio channel
	* ] - Hindi & English ~~Music~~ ~~Radio~~		* AIR Live News – Hindi and English news radio
	* ] ~~- Classic~~ ~~Hindi~~ ~~Music~~ & ~~News~~ ~~Radio~~		* ] – Indian classical music radio channel
	* ~~] -~~ Hindi ~~& English~~ ~~News~~ ~~Radio~~		* Akashvani Aradhana – Hindi devotional radio channel
	* ] - Urdu Entertainment Radio
	* ] - Indian Classical Music Radio
	* ] - Hindi & English Educational Radio

	===Regional===		===Regional===
			* AIR Andhra – ]
	* AIR Assamese
			* AIR Arunachal – ] and ]
	* AIR Bangla
			* AIR Assam – ]
	* AIR Gujarati
			* AIR Bihar – Hindi and ]
			* AIR Chhattisgarh – Hindi and ]
			* AIR Goa – ]
			* AIR Gujarat – ]
			* AIR Haryana – Hindi and ]
			* AIR Himachal – ]
	* AIR Hindi		* AIR Hindi
			* ] – ]
	* AIR Kannada
	* AIR ~~Malayalam~~		* AIR Jharkhand – Hindi
			* AIR Karnataka – ]
	* AIR Marathi
			* AIR Kerala – ]
	* AIR Odia
			* AIR Ladakh – ] and ]
	* AIR Punjabi
			* AIR Maharashtra – ]
	* AIR Tamil
			* AIR Manipur – ]
	* AIR Telugu
	* AIR ~~Agartala~~ - ] & ]		* AIR Meghalaya – ], ] and ]
	* AIR ~~Aizawl~~ - ]		* AIR Mizoram – ]
	* AIR ~~Bhopal~~ - ]		* AIR MP – ]
			* ] – ] and English
	* AIR Imphal - ]
			* AIR North East – Hindi and English
	* AIR Itanagar - ] & ]
	* AIR ~~Jaipur~~ - ] & ]		* AIR Odisha – ]
	* AIR ~~Lucknow~~ - ]		* AIR Port Blair – Hindi
	* AIR ~~North~~ ~~East - ] &~~ ]		* AIR Puducherry – ]
	* AIR ~~Patna~~ - ] ~~& ]~~		* AIR Punjab – ]
	* AIR ~~Shillong~~ - ] & ]		* AIR Rajasthan – Hindi and ]
	* AIR ~~Shimla~~ - ] ~~& ]~~		* AIR Sikkim – ]
			* ] – ] and ]
	* AIR Varanasi - ]
	* AIR ~~Vijayawada~~ - ]		* AIR Tamilnadu – ]
	* ~~] - ]~~ & ]		* AIR Telangana – ]
			* AIR Tripura – ] and ]
			* AIR UP – ]
			* AIR Uttarakhand – Hindi
			* AIR Varanasi – Hindi
			* AIR West Bengal – ]

	===~~Regional~~ FM===		===MPEG-4 radio===
	* ] ~~- ], ] & ] Music & News Radio~~		* ]
	* ] ~~- ] & ] Music Radio~~		* ]
			* AIR Darbhanga
	* ] - ] & ] Music Radio
			* AIR Nazibabad
	* ] - ], ] & ] Music Radio
			* AIR World Service 1
	* ] - ], ] & ] Music Radio
			* AIR World Service 2
	* ] - ], ] & ] Music & News Radio
			* AIR N'hood Service 1
			* AIR N'hood Service 2

	==~~=Test=~~==		==Other channels==
			===e-Vidya Channels===
	* Vividh Bharati
			There are 12 educational channels, one for each class from Class 1 to Class 12.
	* Vividh Bharati
	* DWDS Service
	* DWDS Service
	* DWDS Service
	* DWDS Service

			* e-Vidya 1 – For Class 1 students
	==MPEG-4 Channels==
			* e-Vidya 2 – For Class 2 students
	===SD Channels===
			* e-Vidya 3 – For Class 3 students
	* ]
			* e-Vidya 4 – For Class 4 students
	* ]{{dn\|date=April 2019}}
			* 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
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			* e-Vidya 12 – For Class 12 students
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	==Swayam Prabha DTH==		===]===
	* SP-01 CEC-UGC : ~~Language~~ & ~~Literature~~		* SP-01 CEC-UGC : Vageesh - language and literature
	* SP-02 CEC-UGC : ~~History~~, ~~Culture~~ & ~~Philosophy~~		* SP-02 CEC-UGC : Sanskriti - history, culture and philosophy
	* SP-03 CEC-UGC : ~~Social~~ & ~~Behaviour~~ ~~Sciences~~		* SP-03 CEC-UGC : Prabodh - social and behaviour sciences
	* SP-04 CEC-UGC : ~~Education~~ & ~~Home~~ ~~Sciences~~		* SP-04 CEC-UGC : Saaraswat - education and home sciences
	* SP-05 CEC-UGC : ~~Information~~, ~~Communication~~ & ~~Management~~ ~~Studies~~		* SP-05 CEC-UGC : Prabandhan - information, communication and management studies
	* SP-06 CEC-UGC : ~~Law~~ & ~~Legal~~ ~~Studies~~		* SP-06 CEC-UGC : Vidhik - law and legal studies
	* SP-07 CEC-UGC : ~~Economics~~ & ~~Commerce~~		* SP-07 CEC-UGC : Kautilya - economics and commerce
	* SP-08 CEC-UGC : ~~Physical~~ & ~~Earth~~ ~~Sciences~~		* SP-08 CEC-UGC : Aryabhatt - physical and earth sciences
	* SP-09 CEC-UGC : ~~Life~~ ~~Sciences~~		* SP-09 CEC-UGC : Spandan - life sciences
	* SP-10 CEC-UGC : ~~Applied~~ ~~Sciences~~		* SP-10 CEC-UGC : Daksh - applied sciences
	* SP-11 NPTEL : Chemical Engineering		* SP-11 NPTEL : Chemical Engineering
	* SP-12 NPTEL : Civil Engineering		* SP-12 NPTEL : Civil Engineering
	* SP-13 NPTEL : Computer Science Engineering		* SP-13 NPTEL : Computer Science Engineering
	* SP-14 NPTEL : Electrical Engineering & Electronics Communication Engineering		* SP-14 NPTEL : Electrical Engineering and Electronics Communication Engineering
	* SP-15 NPTEL : Engineering Sciences & Biological Sciences		* SP-15 NPTEL : Engineering Sciences and Biological Sciences
	* SP-16 NPTEL : Humanities, Social Sciences & Management		* SP-16 NPTEL : Humanities, Social Sciences and Management
	* SP-17 NPTEL : Mechanical Engineering & Mining Engineering		* SP-17 NPTEL : Mechanical Engineering and Mining Engineering
	* SP-18 NPTEL : Mathematics & Physics		* SP-18 NPTEL : Mathematics and Physics
	* SP-19 IIT-PAL : Biology		* SP-19 IIT-PAL : Biology
	* SP-20 IIT-PAL : Chemistry		* SP-20 IIT-PAL : Chemistry
	* SP-21 IIT-PAL : Mathematics		* SP-21 IIT-PAL : Mathematics
	* SP-22 IIT-PAL : Physics		* SP-22 IIT-PAL : Physics
	* SP-23 IGNOU : Liberal Arts & Humanities		* SP-23 IGNOU : Liberal Arts and Humanities
	* SP-24 IGNOU : Agriculture & Allied Sciences		* SP-24 IGNOU : Agriculture and Allied Sciences
	* ] ~~- Bengali &~~ ~~Assamese~~		* SP-25 IGNOU : Gyan Darshan 1
	* SP-26 IGNOU : State Open Universities		* SP-26 IGNOU : State Open Universities
	* ] - Secondary School Education		* SP-27 NIOS : Panini - Secondary School Education
	* ] - Higher Secondary School Education		* SP-28 NIOS : Sharda - Higher Secondary School Education
	* ] - Post Graduate Courses		* SP-29 UGC-INFLIBNET : e-PG Pathshala - Post Graduate Courses
	* ] - Education in Sign Language		* SP-30 NIOS : Gyanamrit - Education in Sign Language
	* ] - Secondary School, Higher Secondary School & Teacher Education		* SP-31 NCERT : Kishore Manch - Secondary School, Higher Secondary School and Teacher Education
	* ] - Teacher Education		* SP-32 IGNOU-NIOS : Vagda - Teacher Education
	* ] - Higher Education Channel		* SP-33 CEC-UGC : Vyas - Higher Education Channel
	* ] - Digital 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 ==		==See also ==
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	==External links==		==External links==
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			* at Lyngsat

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			{{Terrestrial television channels of India}}
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Indian free-to-air satellite television service

DD Free Dish
Formerly	DD Direct Plus
Company type	Central Public Sector Undertaking
Industry	Satellite television
Founded	16 December 2004; 20 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

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 177 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 83 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

Sansad TV 1 – For proceedings of Lok Sabha
Sansad TV 2 – For proceedings of Rajya Sabha

High definition (HD) channels

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

DD National HD – HD version of DD National
DD India HD — HD version of DD India
DD News HD — HD version of DD News
DD Sports HD — HD version of DD Sports
Sansad TV 1 HD — HD version of DD Sansad TV 1
Sansad TV 2 HD — HD version of DD Sansad TV 2
DD Tamil HD — HD version of DD Tamil

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

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

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

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

Private channels (MPEG-2)

General Entertainment

Kids

Sports

Sports18 Khel

Music

Movies

News

Devotional

Aastha
Sadhna TV
Sanskar

Regional channels

International

Russia Today – English 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

AIR Andhra – Telugu
AIR Arunachal – Hindi and Nyishi
AIR Assam – Assamese
AIR Bihar – Hindi and Bhojpuri
AIR Chhattisgarh – Hindi and Chhattisgarhi
AIR Goa – Konkani
AIR Gujarat – Gujarati
AIR Haryana – Hindi and Haryanvi
AIR Himachal – Hindi
AIR Hindi
AIR Jammu – Dogri
AIR Jharkhand – Hindi
AIR Karnataka – Kannada
AIR Kerala – Malayalam
AIR Ladakh – Ladakhi and French
AIR Maharashtra – Marathi
AIR Manipur – Manipuri
AIR Meghalaya – Khasi, Garo and English
AIR Mizoram – Mizo
AIR MP – Hindi
AIR Nagaland – Nagamese and English
AIR North East – Hindi and English
AIR Odisha – Odia
AIR Port Blair – Hindi
AIR Puducherry – Tamil
AIR Punjab – Punjabi
AIR Rajasthan – Hindi and Rajasthani
AIR Sikkim – Nepali
AIR Srinagar – Kashmiri and Urdu
AIR Tamilnadu – Tamil
AIR Telangana – Telugu
AIR Tripura – Bengali and Kokborok
AIR UP – Hindi
AIR Uttarakhand – Hindi
AIR Varanasi – Hindi
AIR West Bengal – Bengali

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

"DD FreeDish auction: Prasar Bharati bags Rs 862 cr from sale of 46 MPEG-2 slots - Exchange4media". exchange4media. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
"Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be Online auction to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
Farooqui, Javed (9 August 2023). "TRAI seeks views on regulating DD Free Dish". The Economic Times. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
"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.

External links

Official website
GSAT 15 at Lyngsat

v t e Cable, satellite, and other speciality television providers in India
Cable	Asianet Digital Network18 Group DEN Networks Hathway Digicable Siti Cable TACTV
Satellite	ABS Free Dish (defunct) Airtel digital TV DD Free Dish Dish TV Videocon d2h Zing Digital Independent TV(defunct) Sun Direct Tata Play
IPTV	Bharti Airtel (defunct) BSNL MTNL Reliance (defunct)
Africa, Asia, and Oceania Americas Canada Europe United States

v t e Prasar Bharati Network
Television channels	Doordarshan
Radio stations	Akashvani
Telecommunications	DD Free Dish

v t e Terrestrial television channels of India
Doordarshan	DD Arunachal Pradesh DD Assam DD Bangla DD Bharati DD Bihar DD Chandana DD Chennai DD Chhattisgarh DD Coimbatore DD Dadra and Nagar Haveli DD Daman and Diu DD Girnar DD Gyan Darshan 1 DD Gyan Darshan 2 DD HD DD Haryana DD Himachal Pradesh DD India DD Jharkhand DD Kashir DD Kisan Lok Sabha TV DD Malayalam DD Madhya Pradesh DD Madurai DD Mizoram DD National DD News DD North-East DD Odia DD Podhigai DD Pondicherry DD Punjabi DD Rajasthan Rajya Sabha TV DD Sahyadri DD Saptagiri DD Sikkim DD Sports DD Tripura DD Urdu DD Uttar Pradesh DD Uttarakhand DD Yadagiri

Terrestrial television channels of India

Doordarshan

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Latest revision as of 19:07, 27 December 2024

Television channels

Doordarshan

National

Parliamentary

High definition (HD) channels

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

Private channels (MPEG-2)

General Entertainment

Kids

Sports

Music

Movies

News

Devotional

Regional channels

Bengali

Bhojpuri

Marathi

Punjabi

International

Private channels (MPEG-4)

Radio stations

National

Regional

MPEG-4 radio

Other channels

e-Vidya Channels

Swayam Prabha DTH

VANDE Gujarat

See also

References

External links