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Four more DD channels in U.S.

Service likely to start by end of March 2006

New Delhi: The Indian diaspora in the U.S. can watch four more Doordarshan channels from next month, with public broadcaster Prasar Bharati all set to make them available there.

"Prasar Bharati is poised, hopefully by the end of March 2006, to broadcast four TV channels of DD into the U.S. — DD India, DD Punjabi, DD News and DD Bengali," Prasar Bharati CEO K.S. Sarma said here on Thursday at the Broadcast Engineers Society. Prasar Bharati had earlier invited bids for distribution of four DD Channels through Cable TV Network and Direct-to-Home service.

DTH service

Mr. Sarma was also bullish on the Free-to-Air DTH service of the corporation. — PTI

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