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Cinema TV added on DD Direct Plus Platform
Cinema TV has been added on Test 311 slot in DD Direct Plus. Cinema TV is a Hindi movie channel with a big library of old as well as new movies. The channel is an offering from Softline Group which also has Sadhna TV, Sadhna News channels in their network. ...
I&B gets Parliamentary Committee rap on DD’s DTH expansion issue
NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary Committee has criticised the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for not doing adequate preparatory work before embarking upon schemes to increase the capacity of Doordarshan’s free-to-air direct-to-home platform DD Direct Plus. Doordarshan’s DTH platform at present has capacity of 59 Standard Definition (SD) TV channels. A plan scheme for upgradation of Doordarshan’s DTH Platform to 97 TV channels was approved by the Government in August 2010. Prasar Bharati Board later approved further expansion of Doordarshan’s DTH platform to 150 TV channels. An additional »»»
DD’s DTH far from target, to offer 75 channels by year-end
NEW DELHI: The number of channels on Doordarshan’s direct-to-home platform DD Direct Plus will go up from 59 to 75 channels by the end of the current year. This was stated by Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting S Jagathrakshkan, amid contradictory figures given by both Prasar Bharati and the Ministry over the past year. Prasar Bharati had on 7 June last year cleared the expansion of the country’s only free-to-air (FTA) TV platform to 200 channels by the end of the 2011 and even said the clearance of the detailed proposal for e-auction of the channels for the platform was expected »»»
Mega TV and Kairali TV removed from DD Direct Plus platform
DD Direct Plus removed two channels (Mega TV and Kairali TV) from its platform. Now Mega TV is replaced with Test 410 and it is showing DD National channel. Kairali TV is replaced with Test 502 and it is showing color bars. For latest discussions related to DD Direct Plus, please check our forum from the below link. http://indiandth.in/Forum-DD-Direct ...
DD responds to Mail Today report, defends its DTH ‘decision’
Prasar Bharati (PB) has clarified that the Mail Today story – ‘Scam stink as DD to hire DTH it could have bought’ published on Monday – was “factually incorrect, conjectural, malicious and defamatory”. PB board officer on special duty (OSD), Dhiranjan Malvey said in his written rebuttal that the broadcaster decided to hire facilities for increasing the capacity of Doordarshan’s DTH platform to 150 channels as it would not be possible to procure equipment and make it functional within a time-frame. The PB official said under the 11th five-year plan, the »»»
Scam hits Doordarshan’s direct-to-home service expansion plan
After the disgraceful exit of former Prasar Bharati CEO B. S. Lalli over hiring of equipment during the Commonwealth Games (CWG), another outsourcing scam appears to be brewing in the corridors of Mandi House. The Prasar Bharati board, under its officiating CEO Rajiv Takru, has allegedly pushed through a proposal that violates a decision of the Union cabinet on the expansion plan for Doordarshan’s direct-to-home (DTH) service. The 11-member Prasar Bharati board gave a go-ahead to the proposal on May 13 this year to outsource the entire operation to private players despite the government allocating »»»
Prasar Bharati to bid out DTH operations to private players
New Delhi: In what would be a first for a public service broadcaster anywhere in the world, Prasar Bharati is set to outsource the operational and technical management of its free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) service DD Direct+ to private DTH operators like Dish TV, Tata Sky and others based on a tendering process. Sources said Doordarshan will float a request for proposal (RFP) this week which will invite eligible private DTH and teleport operators to take over the operational command and control of DD Direct+ for the next five years for a fixed monthly fee. The move, according to DD officials, »»»
