Seven months after the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and the state broadcaster Prasar Bharati locked horns over DD Free Dish, there is hope that the Ministry and the board will soon reach a solution. DD Free Dish reaches 2.4 crore households, which get 80 TV channels without a monthly subscription fee, and earns close to […]
New Delhi: The information and broadcasting ministry under Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is set to restart a successful, money-making DTH service that was controversially shut down by his predecessor, Smriti Irani. Sales of Doordarshan’s ‘Free Dish’, India’s No.1 direct-to-home television service, was put on hold at Irani’s behest in August 2017, and has since lost the […]
MUMBAI: Ladakhi News Bulletins are extremely popular among the people in Leh and Ladakh region as there are hardly any private channels telecasting programmes in Ladakhi. Doordarshan is the only source of Ladakhi news for the people of the region. DDK, Leh which started its telecast in the year 2000 has been producing and telecasting […]
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has written to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) seeing a revision of some of the policies of the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) including the levy of processing fee for temporary uplink of live events and the need for security clearances to start new channels. IBF has said in […]
Good news for Doordarshan viewers! For the first time, select IPL matches including the opening and closing ceremonies, are set to be telecast on a one hour deferred live basis by Doordarshan, the national broadcaster. There will be a 50:50 revenue sharing between Star India, which had bagged the IPL media rights last September and […]
MUMBAI: Doordarshan’s free direct to home (DTH) platform Free Dish has seen a drop in its TV channel offering. The DTH platform is now offering 72 channels which is less than the 80 channels that it was offering at its peak. These eight channels including Baba Ramdev’s Aastha channel are believed to have left the […]
Rajyavardhan Rathore, junior minister for information and broadcasting today confirmed that Doordarshan has given permission to eleven companies to manufacture set top boxes with encryption for use on its DTH service DD Free Dish. The statement confirms that the much delayed encryption of the service is on track and will be implemented once the stock […]
