Doordarshan has given high priority for the development of TV services in the North East. The hilly terrain in this part of the country makes it necessary to have a very large number of transmitters. There are 132 transmitters in the North East. There are 12 programme production Centres of Doordarshan in the North-East.

Television studios have been established in the capital cities of all the seven states of Meghalaya, Manipur. Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. There are additional TV centres at Tura in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya and also at Dibrugarh & Silchar in Assam.

All these TV centres originate programmes for a duration of 120 minutes on week days except DDK Guwahati. In addition, all the transmitters in the North East relay a composite programme originated from Guwahati which includes a news bulletin in English and a composite programme of interest to the people of all the North Eastern states. Satelite uplinking facilities have also been established in all the capital stations of the North East to facilitate feeding of news and other topical programmes to Guwahati and Delhi.

Kendra	Inauguration	Language	Duration of Telecast
Itanagar	5/2/1996	Hindi	6 pm – 8 pm
Guwahati	24/3/1985	Assamese	3 pm -8 pm
Dibrugarh	31/5/1993	Assamese	6 pm – 8 pm
Silchar	30/4/1993	Assamese and Bengali
Imphal	30/4/1993	Manipur	6 pm - 8 pm
Shillong	30/41993	Khasi and Jantia	6 pm - 8 pm
Tura	31/5/1993	Garo	6 pm - 8 pm
Aizawl	12/6/1995	Mizo	6 pm - 8 pm
Kohima	30/3/1993	English	6 pm - 8 pm
Gangtok	1/11/2004
Agartala	20/11/1992	Bengali and Kokbork	6 pm - 8 pm