India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is moving at full steam with the international expansion of its English news channel DD India venturing into multiple countries in the Middle East and Central. The expansion comes on the heel of DD India venturing into North America, the Caribbean, and South America through an agreement with international Television Broadcasting LLC (ITV) of the United States.
According to multiple tweets from Prasar Bharati’s official handle on Twitter, the channel is now in both High Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) across Central Asia covering Armenia, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan apart from the Middle East covering UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Damascus.
Prasar Bharati has also expanded the availability of DD India with a content hosting agreement with Novi Digital Entertainment Private Limited for telecasting its DD India channel onboard Hotstar in the United States of America, United Kingdom, and Canada.