Public
broadcaster DD news has completed 10 successful years. On 3rd of november 2003
DD Metro was converted to DD NEWS.
The
channel is available on all the three platforms terrestrial, cable and DTH and
is reaching the entire country with latest news updates round the clock.
The
channel is also globally available on the webcast through its website www.ddinews.gov.in.
DD
News, the country's only 24 hours terrestrial bi-lingual news channel telecasts
over 17 hours of LIVE news bulletins and programmes daily in Hindi and English.
The channel has 29 regional news units which are ensuring widest possible
coverage of the daily events.
The
News wing also produces ten bulletins for Urdu Channel, a bulletin for the
hearing impaired and one Sanskrit bulletin every day in keeping with its public
service broadcasting mandate.
We
were the first channel to show LIVE visuals of Tsunami destruction from Tamil
Nadu Coast in Dec 2004. A documentary "Tsunami - Re-told" also bagged
an ABU award.
DD
news has bagged World Bank Award 2008 for its film on multi-cropping and
bio-diversity. This feature also won the Doordarshan Best Documentary award in
2007 and BBC World Trust Award in 2006.
Doordarshan
News has also bagged "The Asiavision" Award for its fast and
comprehensive coverage of a fire that engulfed a private hospital in Kolkata. A
new show called "News Night" was introduced during the prime time as
part of a major face lit for DD News.The english slot from 9 to 10 also lead
the TRP on the charts of English News Channels.
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