Indian Direct Broadcast Satellite Services - Podhigai TV, DD Chennai, List of Indian Dth Channels, Big TV, Airtel Digital TV, Tata Sky (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 21. Chapters: Aastha TV, DD Bangla, DD Bharati, DD Bihar, DD Chandana, DD Chennai, DD Chhattisgarh, DD Coimbatore, DD Direct+, DD Girnar, DD Haryana, DD Himachal Pradesh, DD Jharkhand, DD Kashir, DD Madhya Pradesh, DD Malayalam, DD Mizoram, DD News, DD North-East, DD Oriya, DD Pondicherry, DD Punjabi, DD Rajasthan, DD Sahyadri, DD Saptagiri, DD Sports, DD Tripura, DD Urdu, DD Uttar Pradesh, DD Uttrakhand, Doordarshan Kendra, Madurai, List of Indian DTH channels, NETV, Paras TV, Podhigai TV, Sadhna TV, Seithigal. Excerpt: DD Chennai formerly known as DD Madras is a state owned TV channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra Chennai. Doordarshan Kendra Chennai was inaugurated on August 15, 1975. The service has been extended to the entire state in phased manner by installing Terrestrial Transmitters of different capacities ( HPTs, LPTs, VLPTs ) at different parts of the state.only one channel with limited time for regional language ie tamil was telecasted, the duration of the entire telecast was not for 24 hours.During 1985 colour transmission was started, and in 1988 a second channel was started. In 1986 tamil serial's were telecasted for the first time. DD Chennai is one of the oldest kendras in the country, having been begun in the mid- 1970s. In addition to the Terrestrial transmission, Chennai programmes were beamed through satellite and cable networks. The channel is owned and operated by Doordarshan, a television network of Prasar Bharati Broadcasting Corporation and is based in Chennai, India. Prasar Bharati is an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India and comprises Doordarshan television network and All India Radio. The channel began broadcast on an experimental basis on August 15, 1975 from a makeshift studio at Chennai Doordarshan Kendra in Chennai as part of All India Radio. It started with 20 TV receivers in and around Chennai and transmitted one hour educational and developmental programs twice a week. Regular daily transmission started in 1975. In 1976, the Indian government constituted Doordarshan, the public television broadcaster, as a separate Department under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Doordarshan Kendra chennai has transformed from the initial setup of Television Base Production Center during 1975. Television Base Production Center was established for SITE ( Satellite Instructional Television Experiment ) Project conducted from 1975 to 1976. This Experiment was envisaged by Govt. of India to Edu