DD Free Dish

DD Free Dish (formerly known as DD Direct Plus) is an Indian 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 117 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 23 channels in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.

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)

DD Free Dish has four 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

Parliamentary

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

General Entertainment

 * Big Magic
 * Dangal
 * Dangal 2
 * Dhamaal TV
 * Ishara TV
 * Manoranjan Grand
 * Manoranjan TV
 * Nazara
 * Shemaroo TV
 * Shemaroo Umang
 * Sun Neo
 * Q TV

Kids

 * Unique TV
 * Chumbak TV

Sports

 * Sports18 Khel

Music

 * 9XM
 * B4U Music
 * Mastiii
 * ShowBox

Movies

 * All Time Movies
 * B4U Kadak
 * B4U Movies
 * Colors Cineplex Bollywood
 * Colors Cineplex Superhits
 * Goldmines
 * Goldmines Bollywood
 * Goldmines Movies
 * Sony Wah
 * Star Gold Thrills
 * Star Utsav Movies
 * Zee Action
 * Zee Anmol Cinema
 * Zee Anmol Cinema 2

News

 * Aaj Tak
 * ABP News
 * Good News Today
 * India Daily Live
 * India TV
 * NDTV India
 * News 24
 * News Nation
 * News18 India
 * Republic Bharat
 * Times Now Navbharat
 * TV9 Bharatvarsh
 * Zee News

Devotional

 * Aastha
 * Sadhna TV
 * Sanskar

Bengali

 * Movie Plus - Movies

Bhojpuri

 * B4U Bhojpuri – Movies
 * Bhojpuri Cinema – Movies
 * Filamchi Bhojpuri – Movies
 * Manoranjan Prime – Movies
 * Raapchik – Movies
 * Zee Biskope – Movies

Kannada

 * Popular TV – GEC

Marathi

 * Fakt Marathi – GEC
 * Sun Marathi – GEC
 * Zee Chitramandir – Movies

Punjabi

 * Manoranjan Movies – Movies
 * Zee Punjabi – GEC

International

 * Russia Today – English News

Private channels (MPEG-4)

 * Aastha Bhajan – Hindi, devotional
 * Bansal News – Hindi, news
 * Bharat24 – Hindi, news
 * BTV World – Bangladeshi channel
 * Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment
 * India News – Hindi, news
 * KBS World – Korean channel
 * News18 UP/UK – Hindi, regional news
 * Sudarshan News – Hindi, news
 * VTV News – Gujarati, news

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

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