Television
Goa is served by almost all the television channels available in India. Channels are received through cable in most parts of Goa. In the interior regions, channels are received via satellite dishes.
Doordarshan (DD), the national television broadcaster, has two free terrestrial channels on air. Goa has all the cable TV channels generally found in India, namely: MTV, ESPN, Fox, Zee TV, ZEE Marathi, HBO, Star Plus, Star Movies, BBC, CNN, Tensports, AXN, Star World, Star News, Fashion TV, Sony, Set Max, SAB, Sahara One, Sahara News, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Animal Planet, Channel X5 etc. Electronic media with DTH (Direct To Home) TV services are available from Dish TV, Tata Sky & DD Direct Plus. Beside this Goa have 5 major local channels, Goa 365 (English /Konkani), Goa 24x7 (Marathi/English),Prudent (Konkani/English)RDXGOA TV and HCN out of this Goa 24x7 is the only 24 hours live Marathi channel on Internet
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