The national television programmes are based on fees. Everyone who ones a tv set has to pay broadcasting fees. Today the actual rate is 17.03 EUR for radio and television. See
http://www.gez.de/door/gebuehren/geb...cht/index.html
Students and unemployed persons are free from broadcasting fees. This is the reason why we had no commercials during the broadcastings.
Here are the programme tables:
http://www.dvb-t-nord.de/programme/index.html
Eleven programmes are national and eleven are private with funding by commercials.
Eckhard