DD Sports to air Khelo India Univ Games

As India awaits Khelo India University Games 2021, there is good news for sports enthusiasts. Doordarshan Sports will be bringing the event live on TV and mobile handsets. Introduced in 2020, as part of Khelo India Games to revive sports culture in India, the second edition of Khelo India University Games is being held from […]

Cumulative AIR stations’ listenership Q1-22 56 mn

The listenership of All India Radio live streams on the NewsOnAir App has seen a jump of 2 Million over a period of just one month. Listenership of All India Radio streams witnessed a rise from 17 Million in February 2022 to 19 Million in March 2022. The cumulative listenership for the first quarter of […]

Govt to seed 150k FreeDish connections in border areas of J&K

In a move to counter cross border propaganda from neighbours, the Indian government will provide free Doordarshan DTH connections to residents of far flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir, especially in villages in the border areas, according to a senior government official. To achieve the goal of reaching out to people living in far-flung and […]

FTA TV channels not mandated to be encrypted: MIB Minister

Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur on Tuesday said that free to air (FTA) television channels were not mandated under law to be mandatorily encrypted while being uplinked to a satellite. “Free-to-Air channels are not mandatorily required to be encrypted,” Thakur admitted to a Lok Sabha (Lower House) question on whether the government […]

63 MPEG2 TV channels hop on to FreeDish; several genres expanded

That Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s FreeDish is a growing competition to pay TV platforms got reiterated when after some fierce bidding, 63 channels managed to find slots for a year on the free DTH platform. In the latest e-auction for allotment of MPEG-2 slots of DD FreeDish for the year April 2022 to March 2023, 63 […]

Doordarshan set to take channels Down Under via SBS deal

Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s news channels are all set to expand its reach in Oz, along with other broad co-production deals, as it signed a partnership with Australian counterpart, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) The partnership will enlarge the reach of DD (News) in English, Hindi and other Indian languages to the Indian diaspora in Australia and […]