The channel has been launched in partnership with Microsoft and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP).

exchange4media Staff 6 days ago

Dr. N Bhaskara Rao’s book 'TRP Trick: How Television in India was hijacked' was launched on Tuesday. At the event, experts discuss how TRP is driving TV content today

exchange4media Staff 1 week ago

The public broadcaster will be assisted by EY India, which will lay out the future blueprint.

exchange4media Staff 23-November-2018

Achyutanand Sahu and two security officers were killed in the attack that took place in Aranpur village in Dantewada

exchange4media Staff 30-October-2018

The move, the ministry feels, will provide access of sporting events of national importance to maximum people on a free-to-air basis

exchange4media Staff 19-October-2018

The last e-auction took place in July 2017, in which DD-Freedish had earned Rs 85.10 crore and had awarded slots to 11 private broadcasters.

Sonam Saini 25-September-2018

Shashi Shekhar Vempati talks about the cultural shift in Prasar Bharati and how he plans to lead the organisation into its next phase of growth

Ruhail Amin 14-August-2018

Autonomous bodies, including Prasar Bharati which receive grants-in-aid from the government are required to sign an MoU with the relevant ministry for the release of funds allocated to them in the Union Budget by the central government.

exchange4media Staff 07-June-2018

However, industry sources say that DD is primarily a Hindi news channel and runs English language content only for a few hours

Nishant Saxena and Sonam Saini 17-April-2018

This has been stated by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting while responding to a question in the Lok Sabha

exchange4media Staff 16-April-2018

In a letter, various employee associations of AIR and DD have requested the Government to explore the possibility of payment of salary directly from the I&B Ministry

Nishant Saxena 21-March-2018

Irani in an interaction with HT also said that the quality of DD needs to improve if it must compete with private news channels and GECs

exchange4media Staff 13-February-2018

Last year in October, the Information and Broadcasting ministry decided to review the channel slot auction of Doordarshan’s DD FreeDish. The ministry asked the broadcaster to suspend e-auctioning of slots on DD Free Dish until further notice

Sonam Saini 24-January-2018

Press Information Bureau Director-General Ira Joshi, today, has been appointed as the Director General of Doordarshan News following the retirement of Veena Jain

exchange4media Staff 21-November-2017

Doordarshan’s ambitious plan to sell prime time slots to private players put on hold barely days before its launch. Balaji Telefilms and Saaibaba Telefilms had won the slots through an auction

Naziya Alvi Rahman 19-September-2017

Dr. A Surya Prakash, Chairman, Prasar Bharati, recently spoke about the organisation still being on the road to autonomy, practice of neutral journalism, the impact of social media and the future of citizen journalism

Ruhail Amin 04-August-2017

Last week, Doordarshan announced a logo design contest with an aim to revamp the look and feel of the channel and make it more contemporary

Ruhail Amin 02-August-2017

In an exclusive interview with exchange4media, Vempati spoke about the challenges facing Prasar Bharati, his vision for the organisation and making it a digitally relevant and commercially viable organisation

Ruhail Amin 11-July-2017

The network's director general, Supriya Sahu said in media reports that Doordarshan also plans to come out with new set-top boxes having MPEC-4 technology

exchange4media Staff 17-January-2017

At the 31st auction of its free-to-air direct-to-home platform FreeDish on 20 and 21 October, Doordarshan earned an amount of Rs 130.30 crore through its sale of 27 slots. The highest bid was above Rs 5 crore

exchange4media Staff 24-October-2016