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 Online auction.^[1]

Currently, DD Free Dish has 116 television channels, among which 94 channels are in MPEG-2 format and 22 channels in MPEG-4 format. For classes 1 to 12, educational TV channels are run under PM e-Vidya program.^[2]

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 Retro – Doordarshan's channel for re-run of its popular classic shows^[3]
• DD Sports – Sports channel
• DD Urdu – State-owned Urdu-language infotainment channel (available in MPEG-4 format)
• DD Free Dish Home Channel – Provides information about DD Free Dish

Additionally, DD Free Dish has three HD channels in MPEG-4 format –

• DD National HD – HD version of DD National
• DD Sports HD — HD version of DD Sports
• DD India HD — HD version of DD India

Parliamentary

• Sansad TV – 2 channels are broadcast with the same content feed, except when the proceedings of the parliament is in place, for which separate feeds are aired.

Regional channels (MPEG-2)

Regional channels (MPEG-4)

Private channels (MPEG-2)

Hindi general entertainment

• Abzy Cool
• Big Magic
• Dangal
• Dangal 2
• Enterr10
• Ishara TV
• Manoranjan Grand
• Nazara
• Shemaroo TV
• Shemaroo Umang
• Q TV
• BTV

Kids

• Unique TV
• Chumbak TV

Sports

• Sports18 Khel

Hindi Music

• 9XM
• B4U Music
• Mastiii
• MTV Beats
• ShowBox
• Zing

Hindi-language movies

• Abzy Movies
• B4U Kadak
• B4U Movies
• Colors Cineplex Bollywood
• Colors Cineplex Superhits
• Dhamaka Movies B4U
• Dhinchaak
• Goldmines
• Goldmines Bollywood
• Goldmines Movies
• Manoranjan TV
• Movie Plus
• Sony Wah
• Star Gold Thrills
• Star Utsav Movies
• Zee Anmol Cinema

Hindi-language news

• Aaj Tak
• ABP News
• Bharat24
• Good News Today
• India TV
• NDTV India
• News Nation
• News18 India
• Republic Bharat
• Times Now Navbharat
• TV9 Bharatvarsh
• Zee News

Devotional channels

• Aastha
• Sanskar

Assamese

• Popular TV

Bhojpuri

• B4U Bhojpuri – Movies
• Bhojpuri Cinema – Movies
• Filamchi Bhojpuri
• Manoranjan Prime – Movies
• Zee Biskope – Movies
• Zee Ganga – GEC

Marathi

• Fakt Marathi – GEC
• Shemaroo Marathibana – Movies
• 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
• Aastha Gujarati — Gujarati, devotional
• Bansal News — Hindi, news
• BTV World – Bangladeshi channel
• Chardikla Time TV – Punjabi, news and entertainment
• KBS World – Korean channel
• MH One Dil Se — Hindi, movies
• News State UP/UK – Hindi, regional news
• News18 UP/UK – Hindi, regional news
• Sudarshan News – Hindi, news
• Swadesh News – Hindi, news
• Vedic — Hindi, devotional

Radio Station

National

• Vividh Bharati – Hindi music radio channel
• AIR News – Hindi and English news radio
• AIR Urdu – Urdu entertainment and information radio channel
• AIR Raagam – Indian classical music radio channel
• Gyan Vani – Hindi and English educational channel

Regional

• AIR Assamese
• AIR Bangla
• AIR Gujarati
• AIR Hindi
• AIR Kannada
• AIR Malayalam
• AIR Marathi
• AIR Oriya
• AIR Punjabi
• AIR Tamil
• AIR Telugu
• AIR Agartala – Bengali and Kokborok
• AIR Aizawl – Mizo
• AIR Bhopal – Hindi
• AIR Dehradun – Hindi
• AIR Gangtok – Nepali
• AIR Imphal – Manipuri
• AIR Itanagar – Hindi and Nyishi
• AIR Jaipur – Hindi and Rajasthani
• AIR Jammu – Dogri
• AIR Kohima – Nagamese and English
• AIR Leh – Ladakhi and French
• AIR Lucknow – Hindi
• AIR North East – Hindi and English
• AIR Panjim – Konkani
• AIR Patna – Hindi and Bhojpuri
• AIR Port Blair – Hindi
• AIR Puducherry – Tamil
• AIR Raipur – Hindi and Chhattisgarhi
• AIR Ranchi – Hindi
• AIR Rohtak – Hindi and Haryanvi
• AIR Shillong – Khasi, Garo and English
• AIR Shimla – Hindi
• AIR Srinagar – Kashmiri and Urdu
• AIR Vijayawada – Telugu

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