# 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 177 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 83 channels 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 (available in MPEG-4 format)

#### 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 seven 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 Tamil HD — HD version of DD Tamil

#### Regional channels (MPEG-2)

| Name | Language | Region |
| DD Arun Prabha | Hindi and English | Arunachal Pradesh |
| DD Assam | Assamese | Assam |
| DD Bangla | Bengali | West Bengal |
| DD Bihar | Hindi | Bihar |
| DD Chandana | Kannada | Karnataka |
| DD Chhattisgarh | Hindi | Chhattisgarh |
| DD Girnar | Gujarati | Gujarat |
| DD Himachal Pradesh | Hindi | Himachal Pradesh |
| DD Jharkhand | Hindi | Jharkhand |
| DD Kashir | Kashmiri and Urdu | Jammu and Kashmir |
| DD Madhya Pradesh | Hindi | Madhya Pradesh |
| DD Malayalam | Malayalam | Kerala |
| DD Odia | Odia | Odisha |
| DD Punjabi | Punjabi | Punjab |
| DD Rajasthan | Hindi and Rajasthani | Rajasthan |
| DD Sahyadri | Marathi | Maharashtra |
| DD Saptagiri | Telugu | Andhra Pradesh |
| DD Tamil | Tamil | Tamil Nadu |
| DD Tripura | Bengali and Kokborok | Tripura |
| DD Uttar Pradesh | Hindi | Uttar Pradesh |
| DD Uttarakhand | Garhwali, Kumaoni and Hindi | Uttarakhand |
| DD Yadagiri | Telugu | Telangana |

#### Regional channels (MPEG-4)

| Name | Language | Region |
| DD Goa | Konkani | Goa |
| DD Haryana | Hindi and Haryanvi | Haryana |
| DD Manipur | Manipuri | Manipur |
| DD Meghalaya | Khasi and Garo | Meghalaya |
| DD Mizoram | Mizo | Mizoram |
| DD Nagaland | English | Nagaland |

### Private channels (MPEG-2)
#### General Entertainment

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

#### Kids

* Unique TV
* Chumbak TV

#### 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
* Movie Plus
* Sony Wah
* Star Utsav Movies
* Zee Action
* Zee Anmol Cinema
* Zee Anmol Cinema 2

#### News

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

#### Devotional

* Aastha
* Sadhna TV
* Sanskar

#### Regional channels
##### Bhojpuri

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

##### Marathi

* Sun Marathi – GEC
* Zee Chitramandir – Movies

##### Punjabi

* Manoranjan Movies – Movies

#### International

* Russia Today – English News

### Private channels (MPEG-4)

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

## Other 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
* Digi Shala