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{{Short description|Marathi-language state-owned Indian Channel}}
{{primary sources|date=August 2009}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox television channel
| name = DD Sahyadri दूरदर्शन सह्याद्री
| logo = DDSahyadriLogo.jpg
| picture_format = [[576i]] ([[4:3]]) ([[SDTV]])
| language = [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| country = [[India]]
| owner = [[Prasar Bharati]]
| launch_date = 15 August 1994<ref name = "ddk">{{Cite web
|url = http://www.ddkmumbai.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/facts-at-a-glance-2010-1-%28March-2011%20update%29.pdf
|title = facts-at-a-glance-2010-1-(March-2011 update).pdf
|date = 31 March 2011
|access-date = 27 January 2015
|website = Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150128135033/http://www.ddkmumbai.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/facts-at-a-glance-2010-1-%28March-2011%20update%29.pdf
|archive-date = 28 January 2015
|url-status = dead
}}</ref>
| former_names = RLSS Marathi (DD 10) (1994 – 2000) <ref name = "ddk"/>
| sister_channels = [[DD National]] [[DD News]]
| network = DD (Doordarshan)
| cable_serv_1 = [[Hathway]] (India)
| cable_chan_1 = Channel 513<ref>{{Cite web
| url = http://www.hathway.com/TVGuide
| title = Hathway TV Guide
| access-date = 27 January 2015
| website = Hathway
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150128130030/http://www.hathway.com/TVGuide
| archive-date = 28 January 2015
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>
| sat_serv_1 = [[DD Free Dish]] (India)
| sat_chan_1 = Channel 525<ref>
{{Cite web
| url = http://www.lyngsat.com/Insat-4B.html
| title = Insat 4B
| access-date = 27 January 2015
| website = LyngSat
}}</ref>
| sat_serv_2 = [[Videocon d2h]] (India)
| sat_chan_2 = Channel 749<ref>
{{Cite web
| url = http://www.videocond2h.com/wsc/epgguide.aspx
| title = EPG
| access-date = 27 January 2015
| website = Videocon d2h
}}</ref>
| sat_serv_3 = [[Tata Sky]] (India)
| sat_chan_3 = Channel 1274<ref>{{Cite web
|url = http://www.tatasky.com/wps/portal/TataSky/channels/tvguide
|title = Tata Sky DTH TV guide, DTH channels, DTH services
|access-date = 27 January 2015
|website = Tata Sky
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150206044526/http://tatasky.com/wps/portal/TataSky/channels/tvguide
|archive-date = 6 February 2015
|url-status = dead
}}</ref>
| headquarters = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| web = https://www.doordarshan.gov.in/ddsahyadri
}}

'''DD Sahyadri''' is a Marathi TV channel. It is a regional channel dedicated to [[Maharashtra]]. It shows Marathi serials, news, films infotainment and educational programs about agriculture, healthcare, and other subjects. It is part of Doordarshan network. It is a [[Free-to-air]] channel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://doordarshan.gov.in/ddsahyadri/about|title=Doordarshan Sahyadri About|last=Dhayade|first=Kundan|date=17 April 2020|website=|access-date=17 April 2020}}</ref>

==Name==
The name 'Sahyadri' in 'DD Sahyadri' comes from the a [[Western Ghats#Sahyadhris|group of hills]] in the [[Western Ghats]]. This is similar to how other regional DD channels are named.

==History==
2 October 1972 ([[Gandhi Jayanti]]): Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai started broadcasting two hours a day on [[DD National]] in black-and-white. The transmission was broadcast using a small transmitter that served few TV households.<ref name = "ddk2">{{Cite web|url = http://prasarbharati.gov.in/Information/Annual%20Report/Documents/PB%2010-11%20Eng_m.pdf|title = Layout 1 - PB 10-11 Eng_m |date = 2011|access-date = 27 January 2015|website = Prasar Bharati|publisher = Prasar Bharati}}</ref>

15 August 1994 ([[Independence Day (India)|Independence Day]]): DD Sahyadri was launched as separate channel as RLSS Marathi (DD 10) throughout India.<ref name = "ddk"/>

2 June 1999: A new studio for DD Sahyadri was inaugurated.<ref name = "ddk"/>

1 January 2000: DD 10 broadcast time increased to seventeen hours a day.<ref name = "ddk"/>

5 April 2000: DD 10 was renamed DD Sahyadri.<ref name = "ddk"/>

==Description==
DD Sahyadri broadcasts serials, informative programmes, public debates, and film-based programmes. Old and new Marathi films shown on this channel. DD Sahyadri offers about six to eight event properties a year with the big ones being the annual DD Awards, Hirkhani Awards (felicitating women achievers) and the Navaratan Awards. DD Sahyadri is supported by Doordarshan studios in [[Mumbai]], [[Pune]] and [[Nagpur]]. It makes an annual live telecast of ''Dahihandi Mahotsav'' from [[Thane]].

DD Sahyadri's Mission is 'To inform, Educate and Entertain Marathi knowing people in their language, idiom & Culture' and 'To showcase the Real Maharashtra Culture, its values, traditions, modernization, diversity and its unity through programmes of high quality in the highest tradition of Public Service Broadcasting with true Indian National Spirit'.

==Competitors and Ranking==
The channel competes with private channels such as [[Zee Marathi]], [[Colors Marathi]], [[Star Pravah]], [[Sony Marathi]] and [[Zee Yuva]] and [[Free-to-air|FTA]] channels such as [[Fakt Marathi]]. In the [[TAM Media Research|TAM]] Report for the week ending on 5 March 2011, DD Sahyadri was ranked the most watched [[Marathi-language]] channel with 32.4% reach. Sahyadri is also considered the best regional TV channel, compared to other regional Doordarshan TV channels. In week 47 of 2020, ''7 chya Batmya'' comes in Top 5 Marathi TV shows. Also, in lockdown of 2020, ''7 chya Batmya'' always top the TRP charts.

==Broadcast Timings==
{| class="wikitable"
!DD Sahyadri Modes
!Timings
|-
|Terrestrial
|6 am to 9 am (except Sunday)
3 pm to 8 pm (At other times DD National is shown in Mumbai)
|-
|Satellite
|24 hours a day
|}

== Monthly Programme Composition ==

=== New versus Repeat Programmes in a Month ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Type of Programme
!Number of Hours
!Percentage
|-
|New Programmes
|367
|51.1%
|-
|Repeat Programmes
|353
|48.9%
|-
|Total Transmission
|720
|100.0%
|}

=== Classification of Programmes in a Month ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Type of Programme
!Percentage
|-
|1. In-House Programme Productions
|80.5%
|-
|(i) News & Current Affairs
|14.5%
|-
|(ii) Marathi Film & Film Based
|13.6%
|-
|(iii) In-House Programmes
|52.2%
|-
|2. Sponsored Programmes
|8.1%
|-
|3. Others (Fillers/Promos/Balchitrawani/Announcements)
|11.4%
|-
|Total
|100%
|}

=== Categories of Programmes in a Month ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Number
!Type
!Percentage
|-
|(i)
|Sports
|0.73%
|-
|(ii)
|Public Service
|13.24%
|-
|(iii)
|Entertainment
|44.30%
|-
|(iv)
|Educational
|10.98%
|-
|(v)
|News, Current Affairs, Parliament/Assembly
|14.45%
|-
|(vi)
|Health
|1.76%
|-
|(vii)
|Children
|3.08%
|-
|(viii)
|Other (Slides/Titles/Promos)
|11.46%
|-
|
|Total
|100%
|}

== News ==
=== News Bulletin Timings ===
{| class="wikitable"
!No.
!Start
!End
|-
|1
|8:30 am
|9:00 am
|-
|2
|11:00 am
|11:30 am
|-
|3
|1:00 pm
|1:30 pm
|-
|4
|4:30 pm
|5:00 pm
|-
|5
|7:00 pm
|7:30 pm
|-
|6
|9:30 pm
|10:00 pm
|}

=== News Headlines Timings ===
{| class="wikitable"
!No.
!Time
|-
|1
|08:30 am
|-
|2
|11:30 am
|-
|3
|02:30 pm
|-
|4
|05:00 pm
|except Sat-Sun
|-
|5
|07:00 pm
|-
|6
|09:30 pm
|}

=== Ratings ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Week
! rowspan="2" | Year
! colspan="2" | [[Broadcast Audience Research Council|BARC]] Viewership
|-
! [[Target Rating Point|TRP]]
! Rank
|-
|Week 47
|2015
|1.3
|5
|-
|Week 12
|2020
|2.0
|2
|-
|Week 14
|2020
|2.1
|1
|-
|Week 15
|2020
|1.9
|1
|-
|Week 16
|2020
|1.7
|1
|-
|Week 17
|2020
|1.7
|1
|-
|Week 18
|2020
|1.3
|1
|-
|Week 19
|2020
|1.1
|1
|-
|Week 20
|2020
|1.2
|1
|-
|Week 21
|2020
|0.7
|5
|-
|Week 25
|2020
|1.1
|1
|-
|Week 26
|2020
|1.4
|1
|-
|Week 27
|2020
|1.4
|2
|}

==Technology==
DD Sahyadri is broadcast from eight high power transmitters in [[Maharashtra]] located in:<ref name = "ddk3">{{Cite web|url = http://vigilantegroup.in/project/sahyadri/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DDK-MUMBAI-%28Annual%20Report%202010-11%29.pdf|title = DDK Mumbai Annual Report 2010-2011|date = 2011|access-date = 27 January 2015|website = Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai}}</ref>
* [[Aurangabad]]
* [[Ambejogai]]
* [[Chandrapur]]
* [[Jalgaon]]
* [[Mumbai]]
* [[Nagpur]]
* [[Pune]]
* [[Ratnagiri]]

== See also==
* [[List of programs broadcast by DD National]]
* [[All India Radio]]
* [[Prasar Bharati|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]]
* [[DD Free Dish]]
* [[List of South Asian television channels by country]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.ddsahyadri.in/ DD Sahyadri]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130726051932/http://www.ddindia.gov.in/ Doordarshan Official Internet site]
* [http://www.ddinews.gov.in/ Doordarshan news site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120414015108/http://passionforcinema.com/doordarshan-down-memory-lane An article at PFC]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{CATV}}
{{Terrestrial television channels of India}}
{{Marathi language television}}

[[Category:Television stations in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Doordarshan]]
[[Category:Foreign television channels broadcasting in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1994]]
[[Category:Direct broadcast satellite services]]
[[Category:Indian direct broadcast satellite services]]
[[Category:Mass media in Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Mass media in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Marathi-language television channels]]
[[Category:1994 establishments in Maharashtra]]

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