Funding
WDR is funded partly from the limited sale of on-air commercial advertising time but principally from viewer and listener licence fee receipts. As of January 2009 the monthly fee payable per household for radio and television reception was €17.98: the equivalent of €0.59 (USD 0.45) per day. For radio only, the monthly fee was €5.76. These fees are collected not directly by WDR but by the GEZ: a joint organization of ARD, its member institutions, ZDF, and Deutschlandfunk.
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