By Sapna 
‘WAVES’ will offer content in 12+ Languages – Hindi, English, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Assamese. It will be spread across 10+ Genres of Infotainment. It will provide Video on demand, free-to-play gaming, Radio streaming, Live TV streaming, 65 live Channels, several App in App integrations for video and gaming content, and online shopping through Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) supported e-commerce platform.
WAVES also offers its platform to content creators including National Creator Awardees like Kamiya Jani, RJ Raunac, Shraddha Sharma and others. WAVES has opened its portal to student graduation films of film and media colleges like FTII, Annapurna, and AAFT.
Aligning with the focus of 55th IFFI on young filmmakers, WAVES will screen ‘Roll No.52,’ a student grad film from Annapurna Film and Media Studio by Nagarjuna and Amala Akkineni.
Fauji 2.0,’ a modern adaptation of the iconic 1980s Shahrukh Khan show Fauji, ‘Kicking Balls’ by oscar winning Guneet Monga Kapoor, ‘Jackson Halt’ a crime thriller, and ‘Jaiye Aap Kahan Jayenge’ themed on mobile toilets will be screened on WAVES.
WAVES includes LIVE events like the Prabhu Shriram Lalla Aarti LIVE from Ayodhya and the monthly Mann ki Baat by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The upcoming US Premier League Cricket Tournament will be carried LIVE on WAVES from 22nd November, 2024. WAVES will also launch a Cyber Security awareness campaign with Daily Video messages in partnership with CDAC, MeitY. This campaign is backed by programmes such as Cyber Crime ki Duniya (a fictionalized series) and Cyber Alert (by DD News features).
Other films and shows on WAVES include fantasy action super hero ‘Monkey King: The Hero is Back,’ the national award winning Fouja, Armaan, Vipul Shah’s thriller show Bhed Bharam, family drama Thode Door Thode Paas featuring Pankaj Kapoor, Kailash Kher’s music reality show Bharat ka Amrit Kalash, Sarpanch, BeCubed by Hotmail Founder Sabeer Bhatia, women centric shows and films such as Corporate Sarpanch, Dashmi, and Kariathi, Jaanki. WAVES also carries a selection of popular animation programs i ..
Expanding the repertoire of content formats, language, genre and reach on WAVES are Live channels including Doordarshan, Akashvani, and private channels across multiple categories such as news, general entertainment, music, devotional, sports.
Central Government Ministries and states are also joining hands with Prasar Bharati to co-develop and contribute varied content such as docudramas, dramatized or fictionalized shows, reality shows with entertainment value, as an effective vehicle for meaningful messages. Some content includes a documentary on the 75th anniversary of the Supreme Court of India, the NFDC archives titled Cinemas of India, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s rare archival content like historical photos, jour ..