DD Movie Club TV Channel

On 7th April, 1995, Doordarshan Launched its movie channel, DD Movie club, two days before Zee's Hindi Movie Channel Zee Cinema. With the launch of This Channel, Doordarshan targeted Hind Movie Channel Space, and it was India's First Movie Channel. 

The channel was launched by DD at three days notice, so channel suffered a lot from glitches on its transmission. The channel was not available terrestrially and only available on cable and satellites. The channel was using PAS-4 Satellite along with DD International. The Channel was aimed to deliver feature films in Hindi, regional languages and English. It also aired Some B-Grade English movies at 11PM.

DD MovieClub also aired Kashmiri News during a break, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. which was very strange experience for the viewers. The channel's picture quality of the channel was not good, and it kept running arty movies like Woh Chokri, Garam Hawa, Tarpan, Rudali which lead channels downfall. Later DD approached Dhirubhai Shah of Time Video, the supplier of films to ATN, for new films.

By November 1996, DD realised that "its really very hard to run two revenue less channels separately", and merged DD Movie Club with its another flop channel DD3. The merger channel was known as DD3-Movie Club : As a two-in-one channel. which was closed on January 1998. Later Doordarshan launched its DD Sports channel at the place of DD3-Movie Club. 


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