THE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING AND CULTURE (SHRI S. JAIPAL REDDY)
(a) Test transmission in Ku-band has been started by Doordarshan and its signals are
available throughout the country except Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
(b) & (c) There would be 30 TV channels (17 DD channels and 13 private channels)
besides AIR`s channels in the Doordarshan`s bouquet. Test transmission with 30 TV
channels and 12 Radio channels is going on. The details of the channels are given in the
Annexure.
(d) to (f) Ku-Band signals are available throughout the country except A&N Islands and
can be received anywhere with the help of a small sized dish receive unit. Doordarshan`s
Ku-band transmission project was approved at a total cost of Rs.164.35 crores. An
expenditure of Rs.33.26 crores has been incurred till October, 2004.
ANNEXURE
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (b) & (c) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 332 FOR ANSWER ON 02.12.2004
DD Direct + Bouquet of channels
Doordarshan channels Radio (AIR) channels
1 DD 1 National 1 AIR Vividh Bharati
2 DD News 2 AIR Telugu
3 DD Sports 3 AIR Marathi
4 DD Bharati 4 AIR Tamil
5 DD Gyan Darshan 5 AIR Gujarati
6 DD India 6 AIR Kannada
7 DD Bangla 7 AIR Bangla
8 DD Chandana 8 AIR Hindi
9 DD Gujarati 9 AIR North East
10 DD Kashir 10 AIR Punjabi
11 DD Malayalam 11 FM Rainbow
12 DD North East 12 FM Gold
13 DD Oriya
14 DD Podhigai
15 DD Punjabi
16 DD Sahyadri
17 DD Saptagiri
Private TV channels
18 Akash Bangla
19 Kairali
20 Jain TV
21 Aaj Tak
22 Headlines Today
23 ETC Punjabi
24 Zee Music
25 MH One
26 Smile TV
27 BBC World
28 Sun TV
29 CNN
30 Star Utsav
