DD Free dish 67th e auction for MPEG2 slots to be held on 13 March 2023

Prasar Bharati has released notice for 67th E-auction and 5th annual e-auction for allotment of vacant MPEG 2 slots on DD Free Dish platform for the period 01.April.2023 to 31.March 2024.

The E-auction will be held from 13th March 2023.

The E-auction will be conducted in accordance with E-auction methodology for allotment of DD Free Dish slots to private TV channels, notified by Prasar Bharati on 27.01.2023.

Only satellite channels licensed by Ministry of I&B would be allowed to participate in the E-auction.
International Public Broadcasters licensed by the Ministry of I&B would be allowed to participate.

Categorization of TV channels in different buckets in accordance with genres/language of channel for the allotment period will be as below:

Bucket A+ GEC (Hindi) channels
Bucket A Movie (Hindi) channels, Teleshopping channels (All language)
Bucket B Music (Hindi) channels, Sports (Hindi) channels, All channels of Bhojpuri language
Bucket C News & Current Affairs (Hindi) channels
Bucket D All other remaining Genre of Hindi, Devotional/Spiritual/Ayush, all genres of Marathi, Punjabi & Urdu channels, News & Current affairs (English channels)
Bucket R1 This bucket is for all channels in languages not covered above.

If a particular Indian language is represented on DD Free Dish by any channel(s) under Bucket R1 for 2 years continuosly then that concerned language shall be deemed as represented and shall be shifted to Bucket R1 to Bucket D from next year.