Doordarshan established its first television station in East India in Calcutta on 9 August 1975, on channel 4 in the VHF band.

[1] The first known broadcast was of a female presenter greeting viewers with the statement, "Nomoshkar.

[2] By this year, besides Calcutta, television services were available in Delhi, Bombay, Amritsar, Lucknow, Madras, and Srinagar.

It was later moved again to a new headquarter building in the Golf Green neighbourhood on 1 July 1986.

It mainly broadcasts programming in Bengali, as well as in Hindi, Nepali, Santali, and Urdu.