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.¹ 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.²³

Currently, DD Free Dish has 184 television channel slots, among which 95 are in MPEG-2 format and 91 in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.⁴

TV channels owned by Prasar Bharati:

• 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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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 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
• 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)