DD Free Dish Reaches 43 Million Households; New Channel Numbers

DD Free Dish, Prasar Bharati's free DTH platform has announced a slew of new channel numbers for 167 TV channels and 48 radio channels. These new channel numbers have come into effect from April 1, 2022, which is today. Besides this, DD Free Dish has become the largest DTH platform with a reach of over 43 million households.

DD Free Dish Subscriber Growth

As per DD Free Dish, with improved auction processes resulting in the addition of better quality and quantity of channels in several genres between 2017 and 2022, the free DTH service provider of Doordarshan witnessed a stellar growth of nearly 100 percent from 22 million households in 2017 to 43 million households in 2022.

New DD Free Dish Free TV Channels

On the whole, the DTH service offers 91 Doordarshan channels that comprise 51 cobranded educational channels and 76 private channels. It is touted by the DTH service provider as the more diverse and engaging bouquet of channels.

The bouquet of private TV channels includes eight Hindi general entertainment channels, six music channels, 15 Hindi movie channels, 22 new channels, four devotional channels, two foreign channels and nine Bhojpuri channels.

As per the reports, the free DTH platform continued to grow its base to reach this new subscriber base. This growth has come on the heels of less expensive TV sets, the addition of new channels, and economic issues. Also, it was quoted that the Free Dish distributors mention the year-on-year growth in sales of the set-top boxes of the DD Free Dish platform.

Notably, the DD Free Dish set-top box can be bought by paying a one-time fee of Rs. 2,000. As it is a free DTH platform, the viewers need not have to pay any monthly fee to watch these channels.

DD Free Dish Free TV Channels List

Below, we have listed the free DD Free Dish TV channel list that is effective from April 1, 2022.

Here, you will find the radio channel numbers offered by DD Free Dish. Check out the same from below.