About DD News Live Now

Doordarshan News is India’s only 24-hour terrestrial TV news channel broadcasting in Hindi, generally referred in abbreviation as DD News. The Prasar Bharati board approved the proposal to begin a 24-hour news channel in place of DD metro, which was closing. This was subsequently approved by the Union Cabinet in a 3 October 2003 meeting.
DD metro was converted into a 24-hour TV news channel, into DD News, that launched on 3 november 2003. Its terrestrial reach is 21.6 percent by zone and 44.9 percent by Indian population.
In 2019 sister channel DD India became Doordarshan’s exclusive channel for English News and Current Affairs. After that parent body Prasar Bharati’s CEO claimed that DD News will be “100% hindi soon”.