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 […]
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 […]
Doordarshan channel, saw its losses mounting to an estimated Rs 800 crore during 2016-17 (April-March), according to a source close to the development. The reason behind these mounting losses, said the source can be attributed to the fact that while private operators pay a paltry sum of Rs 6 crore – Rs 8 crore rupees […]