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For the North America-based satellite television provider, see Dish Network.
Dish TV India Limited 
Type Public (BSE: 532839) Industry Satellite television Founded 2004 Headquarters Noida, India Area served India Key people R. C. Venkateish, (CEO) Products Direct broadcast satellite, Pay television, Pay-per-view Parent Zee Network Enterprise (owned by Essel Group) Subsidiaries Management Services Limited (ISMSL), Agrani Satellite Services Limited (ASSL) and Agrani Convergence Limited (ACL) Website dishtv.in Dish TV India Limited (BSE: 532839) is an Indian company engaged in the business of providing direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service, which includes teleport service, customer support and transponder space leasing. Dishtv is a division of Zee Network Enterprise (Essel Group Venture). It uses MPEG-2 digital compression technology, transmitting using NSS-6 Satellite at 95.0. Dish Tv's managing director and Head Of Business is Jawahar Goel who is also the promoter of Essel Group and is also the President of Indian Broadcasting Foundation.[1] Zee Network incorporated dishtv to modernize television (TV) viewing. It provides features, such as Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), parental lock, games, 400 channels, interactive TV and movie on demand. dishtv also brings national and international channels in India.
Its primary competitors are cable television and other DTH service providers—Airtel digital TV, Reliance Big TV, DD Direct+, Tata Sky, Sun Direct, and Videocon D2H.
Contents
Slogan
"Ghar Aayi Zindagi" (bring home life)
History
DTH service was launched back in 2004 by launching of Dish TV by Essel Group's Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Dish TV is on the same satellite where DD Direct+ was, DD Direct+ shifted to Insat 4B which is adjacent to NSS-6.
Dish TV was only DTH operator in India to carry the two Turner channels Turner Classic Movies and Boomerang. Both the channels were removed from the platform due to unknown reasons in March 2009. In October 2010 Dish tv added the long awaited Neo Sports and Neo Cricket on its platform
Satellite link
Dish TV uses NSS-6 to broadcast its programmes. NSS-6 was launched on 17 December 2002 by European-based satellite provider, NewSkies. Dish TV hopped on to NSS-6 from an INSAT satellite in July 2004. The change in the satellite was to increase the channel offering as NSS 6 offered more transponder capacity.
DTH on Wheels
Dish TV also provides mobile satellite TV on vehicles, trains and aircrafts.[2]
Subscriber Base
Dish TV had about 11.2 million customers as of 30 June 2011.[3]
There are about 35.5 million DTH subscribers in India as of June 2011.[4]
Dish truHD
The logo of Dish truHD.
Dish TV recently launched its high definition service called Dish truHD. Its major competitors are Tata Sky HD, Airtel Digital TV HD and the Reliance Digital TV. It supports 1080i HD quality. Currently there are 43 HD Services and DISHTV plans to give more HD content to its customers.
Channel List
The following is the list of channels provided by Dish TV as of October 2011.[5]
TV Channels
Channel Name Dish Active Services 98 ICICI Active 126 Active Services† 520 Games Active 998 Renewal Message 999 Dish Buzz High Definition ?? Animal Planet HD ?? AXN HD ?? Baby TV HD 61 Cartoon Network HD ?? CNN IBN HD 02 Colors HD 1100 DD HD 50 Discovery HD World 75 ET Now HD 38 Fox Crime HD 37 FX HD 24 HBO HD 89 M Tunes HD 23 Movies Now HD 86 MTV HD 54 National Geographic Adventure HD 51 National Geographic Channel HD 88 National Geographic Music HD 53 National Geographic Wild HD 63 Pogo HD 27 SET Pix HD 04 Sony Entertainment Television HD 80 TEN Action+ HD 79 TEN Cricket HD 78 TEN Sports HD 70 Times Now HD 49 TLC HD 45 Travel XP HD 14 UTV Action HD 3 UTV Bindass HD 13 UTV Movies HD 48 UTV Stars HD ?? VH1 HD ?? WB HD ?? Zee Bangla HD ?? Zee Café HD 12 Zee Cinema HD ?? Zee Classic HD ?? Zee Kannada HD ?? Zee Marathi HD ?? Zee News HD ?? Zee Studio HD 91 Zee Talkies HD ?? Zee Telugu HD 01 Zee TV HD Movie on Demand 250 Movie On Demand 1 251 Movie On Demand 2 252 Movie On Demand 3 253 Movie On Demand 4 254 Movie On Demand 5 424 Movie On Demand 6 Hindi Entertainment 100 & 110 Zee TV 101 Zee Smile 102 Zee Khana Khazana 104 Imagine TV 105 Sony 106 SAB TV 107 UTV Bindass 108 STAR Plus 109 STAR One 111 Colors 112 Sahara One 113 9X 114 STAR Utsav 115 DD National 116 DD India Shopping Channel 196 Star CJ Alive 199 Home Shop 18 Hindi Movies 200 Zee Cinema 201 Zee Premier 202 Zee Action 203 Zee Classic 210 SET Max 211 UTV Movies 212 UTV Action 215 STAR Gold 216 Filmy 219 Enter10 English Movies 401 Zee Studio 408 MGM 409 PIX 410 Movies Now 413 HBO 416 WB 419 STAR Movies Fashion, Lifestyle & English Entertainment 450 Zee Café 454 Fox Crime 455 AXN 457 STAR World 458 Zee Trendz 459 Fashion TV 460 Food First 461 NDTV Good Times 462 Zoom 463 TLC Infotainment 464 Discovery Channel 465 Animal Planet 466 National Geographic Channel 467 Fox History & Traveller 488 Discovery Science 469 Discovery Turbo 470 History 471 Nat Geo Wild Kids 511 Cartoon Network 512 Pogo 518 Nickelodeon 519 Animax 523 Disney Channel 524 Disney XD 525 Hungama News 555 Zee News 560 Zee Chattisgarh 561 Aaj Tak 279 NDTV India 563 DD News 564 Sahara Samay 565 India TV 567 India News 568 P7 News 569 STAR News 570 Zee News UP 571 Live India 572 Lok Sabha TV 573 DD Rajya Sabha 576 Azad News 590 Zee Business 591 CNBC Awaaz 597 ET Now 598 Bloomberg UTV 601 CNBC TV18 602 NDTV Profit 603 NDTV 24x7 606 Times Now 607 CNN-IBN 611 Day & Night News 615 CNN 616 BBC World News Sports 650 TEN Action+ 656 NEO Sports 657 NEO Cricket 658 TEN Cricket 659 STAR Cricket 660 TEN Sports 661 ESPN 662 STAR Sports 663 DD Sports Music 665 Zing 666 ETC 667 MTV 668 B4U Music 669 Channel V 670 9XM 671 Mastiii 673 VH1 International 739 TV5MONDE 733 DW-TV Asia+ 738 RT(Russia Today) 739 NHK World Devotional 750 Zee Jagran 751 Divya 752 Shakti TV 753 Katyayani TV 754 Sadhna TV 755 R K News 757 Disha TV 761 Aastha 762 Mh1 Shraddha 763 Sanatan TV 765 SVBC 762 Shalom TV 767 TBN Educational 770 Care World 771 DD Gyandarshan 1 772 DD Gyandarshan 2 773 Vyas TV Urdu 786 Zee Salaam 787 ETV Urdu 788 DD Urdu Punjabi 800 Zee Punjabi 801 ETC Punjabi 802 DD Punjabi 804 Mh1 Music 806 PTC News 807 PTC Punjabi 812 Time TV Hindi Regional Channels 821 DD Kashir 822 ETV Rajasthan 823 ETV UP 824 ETV MP 826 DD Bharati Bhojpuri Channels 827 ETV Bihar 828 Hamar TV 829 Mahuaa TV Bengali 836 STAR Ananda 837 Rupashi Bangla 838 Sony Aath 839 Sangeet Bangla 840 Zee Bangla 841 Aakaash Bangla 842 ETV Bangla 843 DD Ghanta 844 STAR Jalsha 845 24 Ghanta Oriya 848 Naxatra News 849 Orissa TV 850 Tarang TV 851 ETV Oriya 852 DD Oriya North East 853 News Live 854 DD North East 855 NE TV 856 Nepal 1 857 DY 365 858 Rang TV Marathi 860 Zee Marathi 861 Zee Talkies 862 Zee 24 Taas 863 STAR Pravah 864 STAR Majha 865 IBN Lokmat 866 ETV Marathi 867 Mi Marathi 868 DD Sahyadri 870 Saam Marathi Gujarati 871 ETV Gujarati 872 DD Gujarati 873 TV9 Gujarati Kannada 876 Udaya Comedy 877 Suvarna News 24x7 878 Kasthuri TV 879 Asianet Suvarna 880 Zee Kannada 881 ETV Kannada 882 DD Chandana 883 Udaya TV 884 Udaya Movies 885 Udaya Varthegalu 886 U2 887 TV 9 Kannada Telugu 888 ABN Andhra Jyothi 889 Gemini Movies 890 Zee Telugu 891 ETV Telugu 892 Maa TV 893 DD Saptagiri 894 Gemini 895 ETV 2 896 Gemini Comedy 897 Gemini News 898 Gemini Music 899 TV9 Telugu 900 Zee 24 Gantalu 901 TV5 Telugu 902 Sakshi TV 903 NTV Tamil 904 Kalaignar TV 905 Raj TV 906 Raj Digital Plus 908 Sun Music 909 Sun TV 910 Zee Tamil 911 KTV 912 913 Net 25 |1000 |What's On India |- |1110 |Aastha Bhajna |- |1113 |Sanskar |- |1705 |Firangi |- |1301 |Enterr 10 Movies |- |3780 |Gyanvani
See also
- Airtel digital TV
- DD Direct+
- Reliance Digital TV
- Sun Direct
- TATA Sky
- Videocon D2H
References
- ^ "DishTV India - First DTH TV, Satellite TV, Digital Picture and DTH Services in India". Dishtv.in. http://www.dishtv.in/. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
- ^ "TV on Wheels-DishTv providing Mobile Set Top Box". Dishtv.in. http://www.dishtv.in/dishtv-on-wheels.aspx. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
- ^ http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k11/aug/aug26.php
- ^ http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/2011022710619/dish-tv-india-passes-10mn-dth-subscriber-milestone.html
- ^ http://wiki.indiandth.com/channels/dishtv/
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