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 184 television channel slots, among which 94 are in MPEG-2 format and 69 are 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
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 eleven 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 Kisan HD — HD version of DD Kisan DD Tamil HD — HD version of DD Tamil DD Sahyadri HD — HD version of DD Sahyadri DD Girnar HD — HD version of DD Girnar DD Odia HD — HD version of DD Odia
Regional channels (MPEG-2) NameLanguageRegionDD AssamAssameseAssamDD BanglaBengaliWest BengalDD TripuraBengali and KokborokTripuraDD BiharHindiBiharDD ChhattisgarhChhattisgarhDD Himachal PradeshHimachal PradeshDD JharkhandJharkhandDD Madhya PradeshMadhya PradeshDD Uttar PradeshUttar PradeshDD Arun PrabhaHindi and EnglishArunachal PradeshDD RajasthanHindi and RajasthaniRajasthanDD UttarakhandGarhwali, Kumaoni and HindiUttarakhandDD KashirKashmiri and UrduJammu and KashmirDD ChandanaKannadaKarnatakaDD GirnarGujaratiGujaratDD MalayalamMalayalamKeralaDD OdiaOdiaOdishaDD PunjabiPunjabiPunjabDD TamilTamilTamil NaduDD SaptagiriTeluguAndhra PradeshDD YadagiriTelangana
Regional channels (MPEG-4) NameLanguageRegionDD GoaHindi and KonkaniGoaDD HaryanaHindi and HaryanviHaryanaDD ManipurManipuriManipurDD MeghalayaKhasi and GaroMeghalayaDD MizoramMizoMizoramDD NagalandEnglishNagaland
Private channels (MPEG-2)
Hindi CategoryChannelGeneral entertainment Colors Rishtey Dangal Dangal 2 Manoranjan Grand Manoranjan TV The Q Shemaroo TV Sony Pal Star Utsav Sun Neo Zee AnmolKids Unique TVMusic B4U Music Epic MusicMovies All Time Movies B4U Kadak B4U Movies Colors Cineplex Bollywood Colors Cineplex Superhits Goldmines Goldmines Bollywood Goldmines Movies Shemaroo Josh Sony Wah Star Utsav Movies Zee Action Zee Anmol Cinema Zee Anmol Cinema 2News Aaj Tak ABP News Good News Today India News India TV NDTV India News18 India News 24 News Nation Republic Bharat Times Now Navbharat TV9 Bharatvarsh Zee NewsDevotional Aastha Sadhna TV Sanskar
Regional channels LanguageChannelCategoryBhojpuri B4U Bhojpuri Movies Bhojpuri Cinema Epic Bhojpuri Zee BiskopeMarathi Fakt Marathi GEC Sun Marathi TV9 Marathi NewsPunjabi Manoranjan Movies Movies GTC Punjabi PTC Punjabi PTC News News
International LanguageChannelCategory English Russia Today News
Private channels (MPEG-4) LanguageChannel CategoryNationalHindi Aastha Bhajan Devotional Satsang Vedic MH One Movies MH One Dil Se Bansal News News Bharat Express Bharat24 India Daily Live Live Times Living India News MH One News Nation 27 News India 24x7 Sudarshan News TNP News English Republic TV NewsInternational English KBS World KoreanRegionalAssamese NE News News Prag News Rengoni GECBengali Republic Bangla News TV9 Bangla News News Live Bangla NewsBhojpuri Captain (earlier Raapchik) Movies Epic Bhojpuri Oscar Movies Pasand EntertainmentGujarati Aastha Gujarati Devotional Gujarat First News Sandesh News TV9 Gujarati VTV News Zee 24 Kalak Hindi (MP,CG) Vistaar News News Kannada Aastha Kannada Devotional Public TV NewsRepublic Kannada TV9 Kannada Marathi Jai Maharashtra News Odia Argus News News Punjabi Chardikla Time TV News and entertainmentTelugu Aastha Telugu Devotional TV9 Telugu 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 Aaj Tak Radio
Educational 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
Other channels Digi Shala DD Sathee 1 DD Sathee 2 DD Sathee 3 DD Sathee 4 DD Sathee 5 DD Sathee 6 DD Sathee 7 DD Kite Victors (Malayalam language channel)
See also Direct-to-home television in India
References
External links Official website GSAT 15 at Lyngsat