Direct-to-home television in India
List of DTH Providers

Direct-to-home television in India

Section Title: List of DTH Providers
Table Section Text: None

S. No.	Service Provider	Launch date	Subscribers May 2018	Ownership

1	Dish TV d2h . Zing Digital	October 2003 June 2009 January 2015	28.1 million	Essel Group

2	Tata Sky	August 2006	14.3 million	Tata Sons (60%) The Walt Disney Company (through the acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets) (30%) Temasek Holdings (10%)

3	Airtel digital TV	October 2008	12.5 million	Bharti Airtel Limited (80%) Warburg Pincus (20%)

4	Sun Direct	December 2007	5.2 million	Sun Network (80%) Astro Group (20%)

5	DD Free Dish	December 2004	35 million	Prasar Bharati

6	Independent TV	March 2018	5 million	Pantel Technologies Pvt Ltd. (50%) Veecon Media & Television Limited (VMTL) (50%)

Total Subscribers	105 million

Sentence(s)

DD Free Dish, the DTH service in India, was launched by Prasar Bharati in December 2004.

final_sentence: DD Free Dish, the DTH service in India, was launched by Prasar Bharati in December 2004.