Licence
DR is funded primarily by means of its broadcast receiver licence, collected biannually by DR Licens. Two different licences are available, the radio licence (radio only) and the media licence (all media, including radio), both collected on a per-household basis, regardless of actual use of the services. Traditionally, radio and television owners were obliged to pay the licence, though the increased availability of online streaming has led to the television licence being replaced by the media licence on 1 January 2007. The media licence is mandatory for all owners of television sets, computers with broadband Internet access or TV tuners, as well as mobile phones etc. capable of receiving video signals; the broadband criterion is set as at least 256 kbit/s.
In 2009 the licence has been set to 2,220 DKK (approximately GB£257) for a year per household. In 2007 4.7 billion DKK (GB£544,888,793.64) was paid in licence. Statistics show that approximately 180,000 households do not pay media licence even when obligated to, and 10,000 households are paying radio licence rather than media licence. A person not paying licence is called a "sortseer" or licence dodger in English in DR's campaigns. DR has been criticized for forcing people to pay for a product they have not ordered which is illegal according to the law about certain consumer agreements (Lov om visse forbrugeraftaler) §8 which makes it illegal to charge for a service a person has not ordered.
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