Doordarshan (abbreviated as DD) is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions.
Headquarters: New Delhi.
Motto: Satyam Shivam Sundaram.
Established in: 1959.
Doordarshan, which began as an experiment in 1959 in Delhi, became a service in 1965.
By 1972, services were extended to Mumbai and Amritsar and then to seven other cities by 1975.
All this time, it was part of the national broadcaster, All India Radio. On April 1, 1976, it transited to become a separate department in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
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