DD Freedish renews deal with three television channels after e-auction
The Indian free direct-to-home (DTH) platform, Doordarshan (DD) Freedish, has renewed the licences of three television channels; IBN7, WOW Cinema and Bhojpuri Cinema. After the 30th e-auction, DD, has finally filled up its vacant slots which have been renewed by the three channels.
Prior to this latest channel addition on DD, the DTH platform has added new channels namely Fight Sports and APN, during the previous e-auction in August this year and deals were renewed with six channels; Star Utsav, Zee Anmol, Rishtey, B4U Music, India 24×7 and Vision TV/ Housefull movies), deals being for a year.
Actually, Freedish has 80 channels encompassing genres like general entertainment channel, movies and news. While 24 of the channels are DD channels, the rest are private channels.