Not really. It’s a composite word consisting of the word “rund” (round, circular) and “Funk” (wireless, radio). So basically it just means circular radio [waves] or [sending/emitting] radio [waves] in all directions.
Which is quite literally what a Radio or TV broadcast does.
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I like the german word for broadcast: rundfunk or literally “spray around”
Not really. It’s a composite word consisting of the word “rund” (round, circular) and “Funk” (wireless, radio). So basically it just means circular radio [waves] or [sending/emitting] radio [waves] in all directions.
Which is quite literally what a Radio or TV broadcast does.
but funk is derived from the verb funken
https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Funk_Sender#Herkunft