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DD Free Dish
File:Logo of DD Free Dish.jpg
FormerlyDD DIRECT PLUS
Company typePublic
IndustrySatellite Television Service
Founded16 December 2004; 20 years ago (2004-12-16)
HeadquartersNew Delhi
Area servedSAARC
OwnerDoordarshan, Prasar Bharati
Websitedoordarshan.gov.in/dd-free-dish

DD Free Dish (previously known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian Free-To-Air digital direct-broadcast satellite television service. It is owned and operated by Public Service Broadcaster Doordarshan (Prasar Bharati). It has a reach of approximately 30 million households which is 15 % of the total TV Households in the country.

It is the only free-to-air satellite television service in India. After upgrade, INSAT-4B satellite at 93.5° was used to broadcast 64 FTA MPEG-2 Channels and 29 radio channels.

With the latest upgrade, to GSAT-15 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 MPEG-4, DVB-S2 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. DD Free Dish also offers its slots to private channels.

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.

There is no monthly charges to access DD Free Dish DTH service. This is India's only free DTH (direct-to-home) service.

Channels

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.

In latest 38th e-auction, there is big change in channels. Many private companies off their FTA channels like Star TV, Zee Network, SPN and Viacom18 from DD Free Dish. In 38th e-auction total 40 private channels got a slot within 8 are new channels.

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

Doordarshan

National

Parliamentary

Regional & State-owned

Name Language Region
DD Arunprabha Hindi & English Arunachal Pradesh
DD Bangla Bengali West Bengal
DD Bihar Hindi & Bihari Bihar
DD Chandana Kannada Karnataka
DD Chhattisgarh Hindi Chhattisgarh
DD Girnar Gujarati Gujarat
DD Goa Konkani Goa
DD Haryana Hindi Haryana
DD Himachal Pradesh Hindi Himachal Pradesh
DD Jharkhand Hindi Jharkhand
DD Kashir Kashmiri & Urdu Jammu and Kashmir
DD Madhya Pradesh Hindi Madhya Pradesh
DD Malayalam Malayalam Kerala
DD Manipur Meitei Manipur
DD Meghalaya Khasi Meghalaya
DD Mizoram Mizo Mizoram
DD Nagaland English Nagaland
DD North East Assamese & English Northeast India
DD Odia Odia Odisha
DD Podhigai Tamil Tamil Nadu
DD Punjabi Punjabi Punjab
DD Rajasthan Hindi & Rajasthani Rajasthan
DD Sahyadri Marathi Maharashtra
DD Saptagiri Telugu Andhra Pradesh
DD Tripura Bengali Tripura
DD Uttar Pradesh Hindi Uttar Pradesh
DD Uttarakhand Hindi Uttarakhand
DD Yadagiri Telugu Telangana

TV Channels

Hindi General Entertainment

Hindi Movies

Hindi Music

Youth

  • Zing - Music & Youth Channel

Sports

Hindi News

Regional TV Channels

Bhojpuri

Marathi

Punjabi

Rajasthan

Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

DEVOTIONAL CHANNEL

  • AASTHA TV
  • SANSKAR
  • VEDIC

Foreign language (including English)

All India Radio

National

Regional

Regional FM

Test

  • Vividh Bharati
  • Vividh Bharati
  • DWDS Service
  • DWDS Service
  • DWDS Service
  • DWDS Service

MPEG-4 Channels

SD Channels

Swayam Prabha DTH

  • SP-01 CEC-UGC : Language & Literature
  • SP-02 CEC-UGC : History, Culture & Philosophy
  • SP-03 CEC-UGC : Social & Behaviour Sciences
  • SP-04 CEC-UGC : Education & Home Sciences
  • SP-05 CEC-UGC : Information, Communication & Management Studies
  • SP-06 CEC-UGC : Law & Legal Studies
  • SP-07 CEC-UGC : Economics & Commerce
  • SP-08 CEC-UGC : Physical & Earth Sciences
  • SP-09 CEC-UGC : Life Sciences
  • SP-10 CEC-UGC : Applied Sciences
  • SP-11 NPTEL : Chemical Engineering
  • SP-12 NPTEL : Civil Engineering
  • SP-13 NPTEL : Computer Science Engineering
  • SP-14 NPTEL : Electrical Engineering & Electronics Communication Engineering
  • SP-15 NPTEL : Engineering Sciences & Biological Sciences
  • SP-16 NPTEL : Humanities, Social Sciences & Management
  • SP-17 NPTEL : Mechanical Engineering & Mining Engineering
  • SP-18 NPTEL : Mathematics & 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 & Humanities
  • SP-24 IGNOU : Agriculture & Allied Sciences
  • SP-25 NIOS : D.El.Ed. - Bengali & Assamese
  • 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 & Teacher Education
  • SP-32 IGNOU-NIOS : Vagda - Teacher Education
  • SP-33 CEC-UGC : Vyas - Higher Education Channel
  • Digi Shala - Digital Education Channel

See also

References

  1. "Slots on Doordarshan Free Dish to be e-auctioned to private channels". The Economic Times. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  2. "DD Free Dish logo add DD Channel". forum.dishtracking.com. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  3. "DD to offer its satellite network to private channels - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 February 2019.

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