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Wikipedia / DD 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 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

High definition (HD) channels

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

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

Private channels (MPEG-2)

Hindi

Regional channels

International

Private channels (MPEG-4)

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

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#SWAYAM PRABHASwayam 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

References