Today, DD Direct Plus has added 9XM Music channel back on its platform. It has replaced Test 302 channel on Frequency 11150. 9XM is an Indian Hindi music television channel, broadcast in India based in Mumbai. The channel is owned by 9X Media, an Indian television broadcaster, owned by a consortium of private equity fund investors. 9XM airs the latest Bollywood songs interspersed with jokes...
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NEW DELHI: The number of channels on Doordarshan’s direct-to-home platform DD Direct Plus will go up from 59 to 75 channels by the end of the current year. This was stated by Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting S Jagathrakshkan, amid contradictory figures given by both Prasar Bharati and the Ministry over the past year. Prasar Bharati had on 7 June last year cleared the expansion...
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NEW DELHI: Doordarshan has earned revenue of Rs 736.1 million from the e-auction of 29 slots to private broadcasters on the country’s only free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) platform, DD Direct Plus. This is over three times per slot DD charged broadcasters for being carried on DD Direct Plus, going up from Rs 8 million last time to Rs 25.35 million. The amount generated before migrating...
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New Delhi: Acute shortage of DTH spectrum may account for a minimum loss of R300 crore for public broadcaster Prasar Bharati in the current fiscal. Due to spectrum crunch and lack of Ku-band transponders (DTH spectrum) on satellites, the expansion and revenue-earning capabilities of the public broadcaster have been badly hit.As a result, it has to shelve plans to outsource the operational...
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DD Direct+ is the India’s one and one only free DTH service from the public service broadcaster Doordarshan launched in 2004. Here we review the service and what it offers to a viewer. Hardware: The hardware like dish, antenna, assembly and set-top box is for the user to choose as per his budget. There are no appointed dealers or own branded set-top boxes. Any FTA satellite receiver...
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