 Prior to 2013, only households and businesses with at least one television were required to pay.Households with no televisions but with a radio or an Internet-capable device were subject to a reduced radio-only fee.The licence fee is used to fund the public broadcasters ZDF and Deutschlandradio as well as the nine regional broadcasters of the ARD network, who altogether run 22 television channels (10 regional, 10 national, 2 international