Germany’s state-level governments want the public broadcasting system to cut the number of radio programmes as part of a broader reform aimed at making the system more cost-efficient. The coordinator of Germany’s Broadcasting Commission of the Federal States, Heike Raab, told dpa that there have also been discussions about consolidating special-interest public television channels and limiting the number of smartphone apps operated by the public broadcasters. In Germany, public broadcasting is funded by a fee charged to households and is governed under a treaty between all 16 German states. The…