DD Freedish has allotted new channel numbers for 167 TV channels and 48 radio channels.
Complete list of LCNs
Channel Name (TV) |
Channel Number (LCN) |
DD News |
1 |
DD National |
2 |
DD Retro |
3 |
DD Kisan |
4 |
DD India |
5 |
Sun Marathi |
6 |
Showbox |
7 |
DD Girnar |
8 |
Ishara TV |
9 |
ABZY Movies |
10 |
Vedic |
11 |
B4U Movies |
12 |
Good News Today |
13 |
B4U Bhojpuri |
14 |
Dhinchaak |
15 |
Big Ganga |
16 |
Goldmines Bhojpuri |
17 |
Manoranjan Prime |
18 |
Manoranjan Grand |
19 |
Shemaroo Marathibana |
20 |
DD Podhigai |
21 |
DD Punjabi |
22 |
DD Sahyadri |
23 |
Fakt Marathi |
24 |
MyCam |
25 |
Sansad TV |
26 |
Sansad TV |
27 |
Shemaroo TV |
28 |
Dangal |
29 |
Bhojpuri Cinema |
30 |
Zee Biskope |
31 |
ABZY Cool |
32 |
Dhinchaak 2 |
33 |
The Q |
34 |
Colors Cineplex Bollywood |
35 |
Goldmines Hindi |
36 |
Enterr 10 |
37 |
Rishtey Cineplex |
38 |
Movie Plus |
39 |
Manoranjan Movie |
40 |
Big Magic |
41 |
B4U Kadak |
42 |
Manoranjan TV |
43 |
TV9 Bharatvarsh |
44 |
Aastha |
45 |
Filamchi Bhojpuri |
46 |
Zing |
47 |
Zee Anmol Cinema |
48 |
NDTV India |
49 |
Azaad |
50 |
Enterr- 10 Movies |
51 |
Goldmines Movies |
52 |
Popcorn Movies |
53 |
Sanskar TV |
54 |
Star Utsav Movies |
55 |
News 18 India |
56 |
9XM |
57 |
Sony Wah |
58 |
Zee Hindustan |
59 |
India News |
60 |
MTV Beats |
61 |
Mastii |
62 |
B4U Music |
63 |
India TV |
64 |
News Nation |
65 |
Times Now Navbharat |
66 |
Republic Bharat |
67 |
Aaj Tak |
68 |
ABP News |
69 |
Zee News |
70 |
Zee Chitramandir |
71 |
Zee Punjabi |
72 |
News 24 Think First |
73 |
Food Food |
74 |
DD Yadagiri |
75 |
DD UP |
76 |
DD Bharati |
77 |
DD Rajasthan |
78 |
DD Sports |
79 |
DD Bihar |
80 |
DD Jharkhand |
81 |
DD MP |
82 |
DD Tripura |
83 |
DD Chhattisgarh |
84 |
DD Kashir |
85 |
DD Chandana |
86 |
DD Uttarakhand |
87 |
DD Saptagiri |
88 |
DD Malayalam |
89 |
DD Assam |
90 |
DD Oriya |
91 |
DD Arun Prabha |
92 |
DD Bangla |
93 |
Home Channel |
94 |
Astha Bhajan |
95 |
Chardikala Time TV |
96 |
DD Goa |
97 |
DD Haryana |
98 |
DD Himachal Pradesh |
99 |
Samay |
100 |
India News UP/UK |
101 |
Sudarshan News |
102 |
News 18 UP/UK |
103 |
DD Meghalaya |
104 |
DD Manipur |
105 |
DD Nagaland |
106 |
DD Mizoram |
107 |
News State UP/UK |
108 |
News India 24X7 |
109 |
Bflix Movies |
110 |
BTV World |
111 |
KBS World |
112 |
DD National HD |
113 |
DD Urdu |
114 |
Swadesh News |
115 |
Raftaar Media |
116 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 1 |
117 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 2 |
118 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 3 |
119 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 4 |
120 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 5 |
121 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 6 |
122 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 7 |
123 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 8 |
124 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 9 |
125 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 10 |
126 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 11 |
127 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 12 |
128 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 13 |
129 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 14 |
130 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 15 |
131 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 16 |
132 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 17 |
133 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 18 |
134 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 19 |
135 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 20 |
136 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 21 |
137 |
DD SWAYAM Prabha 22 |
138 |
DD eVidya 1 |
139 |
DD eVidya 2 |
140 |
DD eVidya 3 |
141 |
DD eVidya 4 |
142 |
DD eVidya 5 |
143 |
DD eVidya 6 |
144 |
DD eVidya 7 |
145 |
DD eVidya 8 |
146 |
DD eVidya 9 |
147 |
DD eVidya 10 |
148 |
DD eVidya 11 |
149 |
DD eVidya 12 |
150 |
DD Vande Gujarat 1 |
151 |
DD Vande Gujarat 2 |
152 |
DD Vande Gujarat 3 |
153 |
DD Vande Gujarat 4 |
154 |
DD Vande Gujarat 5 |
155 |
DD Vande Gujarat 6 |
156 |
DD Vande Gujarat 7 |
157 |
DD Vande Gujarat 8 |
158 |
DD Vande Gujarat 9 |
159 |
DD Vande Gujarat10 |
160 |
DD Vande Gujarat11 |
161 |
DD Vande Gujarat12 |
162 |
DD Vande Gujarat13 |
163 |
DD Vande Gujarat14 |
164 |
DD Vande Gujarat15 |
165 |
DD Vande Gujarat16 |
166 |
DD DigiShala |
167 |
In News and Current Affairs category, the number of channels has increased from 11 to 14, while the bucket of Hindi Music, Hindi Sports, Hindi Teleshopping channels, Bhojpuri Movies and Bhojpuri general entertainment channels has registered growth from 13 to 16.
The DD Freedish channels include 91 Doordarshan channels (comprising of 51 co-branded educational channels) and 76 private TV channels. With effect from April 1, 2022, DD Freedish private TV channels bouquet would comprise 8 Hindi general entertainment channels, 15 Hindi Movie channels, 6 Music channels, 22 News channels, 9 Bhojpuri channels, 4 Devotional and 2 foreign channels.
For the first time on DD Freedish, a dedicated channel for food, ‘Food Food’ by Chef Sanjeev Kapoor, has been added. There is good news for sports enthusiasts as now apart from DD Sports, Freedish will have another sports channel ‘MyCam’.
In the latest e-auction for allotment of MPEG-2 slots of DD Freedish for 2022-23, 63 channels were allocated slots in various genres.
Doordarshan Freedish has become the largest DTH platform with a reach of more than 43 million households. With improved auction processes leading to the addition of better quality and quantity of channels in various genres, between 2017 and 2022 alone, the Free DTH service of Doordarshan clocked a growth of almost 100% from 22 million in 2017 to 43 million in 2022.
A recent report by FICCI-EY stated that free Television continued to grow its base “to reach an estimated 43 million subscribers on the back of less expensive television sets, economic issues, and the addition of new channels to the platform.”
The report has quoted Freedish distributors mentioning year-on-year growth in sales of DD Freedish set-top boxes.
Between 2004 and 2017, the DD Freedish subscribers grew by 22 million subscribers. While in just the last five years between 2017 and 2022, Freedish has added another 21 million subscribers, taking the total to 43 million.
Prasar Bharati’s DTH service DD Freedish is the only Free-to-Air (FTA) Direct-To-Home (DTH) Service where the viewer doesn’t have to pay any monthly subscription fee. It only requires a small one-time investment of about Rs 2000 for the purchase of the DD Freedish set-top box.