It was established on 2 October 1972, and now produces and broadcasts the 24-hour Marathi language TV channel, DD Sahyadri, which was launched in 1994 and covers most of the state of Maharashtra, India.
Besides the regional language Marathi, programmes in Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, English, Sindhi and even Punjabi were also telecast.
Celebrations of festivals like Govinda and Ganpati Visarjan and major sports and cultural events are brought live to the viewers by the channel every year.
All feature films telecast on national channel and Hindi belt network of Doordarshan are capsuled and uplinked by Mumbai Kendra.
All in house films based programmes of national channel like Bioscope, Rangoli and Chulbuli Filmen Chatpati Gupshup are also produced and linked up by Mumbai Center.
Cine Satrangi and Top Ten, now discontinued film based programmes, were also contributes to by Mumbai Doordarshan.
Since 2005, Mumbai Kendra is organising and producing programmes related to Robocon India, an annual Robotic Contest.
Doordarshan Mumbai has a staff strength of more than 500 belonging to programme, engineering, administration, news and canteen categories.