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NEW DELHI: Doordarshan will telecast live the main summit of the third edition of the India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) on 29 October on all its three...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan earned a sum of Rs 57.1 crore in the 23rd e-auction of its free-to-air DTH platform Freedish on 19 October, with 14 channels coming...
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) has rejected demands for putting off the national broadcast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat until the Bihar elections are...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan is making headway in playing dual roles of being an entertainer and at the same time shouldering its responsibilities as a public service...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s National Channel will be launching a new show called Hunnarbaaz, which is based on apprenticeship training programme. The 10-part series, which will launch...
NEW DELHI: Less than four weeks after the last e-auction, Doordarshan will be holding the 23rd e-auction for its free-to-air DTH platform Freedish on 19 October...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan earned Rs 31.3 crore from the auction of eight slots to Indian television channels on its free-to-air DTH platform Freedish in the 22nd e-auction....
NEW DELHI: All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD), which provide a platform for political parties to make poll broadcasts before every election, will also organise...
NEW DELHI: The local programmes from the Gangtok Kendra of Doordarshan were uplinked to satellite on 15 September. Doordarshan director general C. Lalrosanga was present...
NEW DELHI: In the month when the nation observes Teachers’ Day, Doordarshan’s cultural channel DD Bharati has commenced telecast of a weekly show called Bharati Gurukul to impart...
NEW DELHI: 15 September, 2015 marks 56 years to the day when Indian public broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) was first launched with an experimental telecast starting in...
NEW DELHI: Barely six weeks after the last e-auction, Doordarshan will hold the 22nd e-auction for its free-to-air DTH platform Freedish on 22 September in an attempt...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) is yet to clear a proposal for separate 24-hour Doordarshan (DD) channels for each state in the...
NEW DELHI: With the third phase of digital addressable system (DAS) expected to be implemented by 1 January 2016, the single biggest challenge facing the government and stakeholders...
NEW DELHI: “This is the only channel of this kind in the whole world, which is dedicated to the farmers and their welfare. It is serving...
NEW DELHI: Goa Governor Mridula Sinha, while lauding women who have joined the police or the armed forces, said she was amazed to see the kind...
NEW DELHI: An India Heritage Quiz will be telecast every Sunday on Doordarshan’s cultural channel DD Bharati to test the intelligence level of average Indians. ...
NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee will address the nation tomorrow (14 August) at 7 pm on the eve of Independence Day. The broadcast will be...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan will be holding its 21st e-auction for its free-to-air DTH platform Freedish on 12 August in an attempt to touch the target of 112 television channels...
NEW DELHI: All India Radio has appointed 26 agricultural graduates as Farm and Home/Farm Radio reporters for its programmes aimed at the farming community. The Parliament...
NEW DELHI: Contrary to plans of the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the present government has said there are no plans to introduce a comprehensive broadcast...
NEW DELHI: While multi-system operators (MSOs) and direct-to-home (DTH) operators are expected to mandatorily carry a total of 24 Doordarshan channels in digital addressable system (DAS)...
NEW DELHI: In a pioneering move, Doordarshan today became the first Indian television channel to introduce an online payment gateway for advertisers that will ensure greater...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan incurred a sum of Rs 301.45 crore during the last three years towards digitisation of its infrastructure. This included expenditure incurred on digitisation...
NEW DELHI: Former BBC Hindi radio journalist and Doordarshan newsreader Rama Pandey was honoured with the ‘Bharat Gaurav Award’ for her contribution towards Journalism and Activism with a Lifetime...
NEW DELHI: The Indian pubcaster has been a soft target since time immemorial. In the light of media articles citing ratings data by the Broadcast Audience...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited inputs from the people for his next ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio broadcast on 26 July. The inputs...
MUMBAI: Actor Amitabh Bachchan has denied signing any contract with Doordarshan for endorsing its recently launched television channel Kisan TV. In an official statement, Bachchan denied...
“If you think you know what your purpose is, but can never seem to gain satisfaction from it, then it’s probably not the purpose you’re destined...
MUMBAI: The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry has appointed Mukesh Sharma as director general of Films Division, Mumbai. This is in addition to his regular responsibilities...
NEW DELHI: When he passed away suddenly on 27 August, 1976, one of last century’s foremost filmmakers Raj Kapoor had lamented, “I have lost my voice.”...
MUMBAI: Doordarshan (DD) has successfully implemented the first phase of automating its commercial operations in the first week of July this year. It may be...
MUMBAI: 3 July, 2000 is a date Indian television industry folks will not forget. It was on this day that a new show hit TV screens...
It is a matter of prime cultural concern in any nation of heritage to preserve its invaluable assets of antiquity and inherited monuments of fine arts...
MUMBAI: Broadcast & Media Technology 2015, second International Exhibition on Broadcast Equipment & Technology, will be held on 17 & 18 July at ITC Grand Chola, Chennai....
NEW DELHI: The next installment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ will be broadcast by All India Radio on 28 June. This is...
NEW DELHI: The Government today warned all multi-system operators (MSO) and local cable operators (LCO) of action if they failed to carry the mandatory channels of...
NEW DELHI: With India aiming to get into the Guinness Book of World Records with the largest number of people performing Yoga at a single venue...
NEW DELHI: After struggling for almost 25 years, the public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has finally broken the bureaucratic shackles and started the process of completing 2,367...
NEW DELHI: The largest single Yoga demonstration at a single venue – the Rajpath in Delhi – will be telecast on Doordarshan channels as well as...
MUMBAI: Canada’s South Asian broadcaster Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights for India vs Bangladesh Bilateral Cricket series, which is...
NEW DELHI: At a time when a feature film has just been made on the subject, Doordarshan is re-telecasting the popular series Byomkesh Bakshi, which was made...
NEW DELHI: In partial modification of its earlier order, the Government said today that Veena Jain, who has been asked to take over as director general...
MUMBAI: Independent MAM technology solutions specialist Tedial has provided its Tarsys enterprise MAM system to Indian pubcaster Doordarshan. The Tedial system, installed at Doordarshan’s Kolkata...
NEW DELHI: The order posting Veena Jain to head the news channel of Doordarshan as director general and noting that the officer ‘will report to the...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan has been allocated total funds of Rs 1,583.97 crore in the financial years since 2012 for its ’s TV relay centers. This includes...
NEW DELHI: The government funds to Prasar Bharati for content development and dissemination have been stopped from the 12th Plan. The pubcaster was getting funds...
NEW DELHI: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has undertaken scores of public service advertising on Doordarshan, has now been made the brand ambassador for the pubcaster’s latest...
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has made it mandatory for all platforms and carriers to carry the DD Kisan channel, launched earlier...
NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s Kisan TV channel was launched today (26 May) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling upon agricultural scientists to create a link with the...
