DD Sahyadri
DD Sahyadri is a Marathi TV channel. It is a regional channel dedicated to Maharashtra. It shows Marathi serials, news, films infotainment and educational programs about agriculture, healthcare, and other subjects. It is part of Doordarshan network. It is a free-to-air channel.
Name
The name 'Sahyadri' in 'DD Sahyadri' comes from the a group of hills in the Western Ghats. This is similar to how other regional DD channels are named.History
2 October 1972 : Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai started broadcasting two hours a day on DD National in black-and-white. The transmission was broadcast using a small transmitter that served few TV households. The station broadcast on channel 4 from 6 to 10pm every evening, with additional schools programming on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. A second station in Poona on channel 5 was added in 1973. Regional service started on 9 August 1986.15 August 1994 : DD Sahyadri was launched as separate channel as RLSS Marathi throughout India.
2 June 1999: A new studio for DD Sahyadri was inaugurated.
1 January 2000: DD 10 broadcast time increased to seventeen hours a day.
5 April 2000: DD 10 was renamed DD Sahyadri.
Description
DD Sahyadri broadcasts serials, informative programmes, public debates, and film-based programmes. Old and new Marathi films are aired on this channel. DD Sahyadri offers about six to eight event properties a year with the big ones being the annual DD Awards, Hirkhani Awards and the Navaratan Awards. DD Sahyadri is supported by Doordarshan studios in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur. It makes an annual live telecast of Dahihandi Mahotsav from Thane.DD Sahyadri's Mission is "to inform, educate and entertain Marathi knowing people in their language, idiom and culture" and to showcase "the real Maharashtra culture, its values, traditions, modernisation, diversity and its unity through programmes of high quality in the highest tradition of public service broadcasting with true Indian national spirit".