- Business
- Dish TV India Limited (DISHTV.BO), incorporated in 1988 and headquartered in Noida, India, operates as India's leading direct-to-home (DTH) television services provider, offering subscription-based satellite entertainment under the Dish TV, D2H, and Zing brands; it delivers over 700 channels including high-definition content, regional programming in languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, and Urdu, and value-added services like active channels (Music Active, Comedy Active, Hollywood Active, Kids Active, Movies Active, Women's Active, Cine Active, Shorts TV Active, Toppers Active), video-on-demand, electronic program guides, parental controls, gaming, and multilingual options across a pan-India network reaching more than 9,450 cities and towns with over 23 million subscribers. The company provides connected devices including Dish HD set-top boxes with recording capabilities, DishSMRT Hub and D2H Stream for smart TV transformation and OTT app streaming, DISHTV STB Dongle, DISHTV TV Key, DishTV Universal Remote, and hybrid boxes; it also operates the Watcho OTT super-app aggregator with 98 million downloads and 14 million paid subscriptions as of September 2025, alongside teleport services, ShopZop phygital marketplace, and recently launched VZY integrated Smart TVs featuring bundled content subscriptions, iSTB models, and no-need-for-set-top-box delivery via Nagravision and Samsung partnerships. Recent developments include maintaining debt-free status as of September 2025, launching VZY Smart TVs with device-led customer acquisition and associations as co-powered by sponsor for Bigg Boss Hindi and co-presenting sponsor for Bigg Boss Kannada in 2025, partnering with Amazon Prime in November 2025 to offer Prime Lite benefits across DTH, Watcho, VZY, and ISP networks, collaborating with C21Media for the Content India Summit 2025 and opening registrations for Content India 2026, expanding Watcho as an entertainment super-app with creator-led premium content marketplace Fliqs, and introducing voice-enabled search and new VAS like Hollywood Indie Active within the last two years to counter competition from mobile, broadband, and free TV while building a connected TV-plus-OTT ecosystem.