DD Saptagiri

DD Saptagiri is one of two Telugu-language TV channels from Doordarshan, the Indian public television broadcaster. The other is DD Yadagiri. It was launched in 1994 as DD8 and renamed in 2000 (see footnote). It is named after the Saptagiri hills in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

In 2014, the state of Telangana was carved out of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh; these two states are where the Telugu-speaking population is concentrated. As a consequence, DD Saptagiri, which operated out of Hyderabad (in present-day Telangana) until then, shifted to the city of Vijayawada in post-bifurcation Andhra Pradesh, while DD Yadagiri was launched from Hyderabad.

Footnote

 * In 1994, Doordarshan launched a number of channels in Indian regional languages. They were originally numbered from 1 through 18; they were renamed in 2000. (Most were renamed to the corresponding language; in the case of DD Podhigai, DD Saptagiri, DD Sahyadri and DD Girnar, they were named after hill ranges in the state where the language is spoken, while DD Chandana was named after sandalwood, a major produce of the state of Karnataka.)