Mediathek-Wächter - German Catch-Up TV Radar
A personalized alert system that tells you when SOKO München and 60+ other German public-broadcaster shows are about to leave the ZDF/ARD/BR Mediatheken or get a TV rerun, so you never miss an episode that disappears.
German-speaking viewers of ZDF, ARD and regional crime and quiz shows who watch on delay
- Expiration alerts for episodes currently in the Mediathek with X days remaining
- Linear-TV rerun calendar so you can catch SOKO and Tatort episodes in the broadcast slot
- Show-specific watchlists that surface new episodes the moment they hit the Mediathek
- Episode-guide summaries refreshed from ZDF and ARD press releases
Audiences who missed the latest SOKO München broadcast are clearly searching for repeat-viewing options, and the catch-up window in public Mediatheken is typically 7-30 days before episodes are gone for good.
SOKO München is a 40+ year franchise heavily searched on fernsehserien.de and sendungverpasst.de, but 'missed-episode' demand is already absorbed by ZDF's official app (Merkliste + push for new episodes) and aggregator sites — so incremental demand for a separate radar is modest.ZDF Streaming-Portal: Filme, Serien und Dokus online anschauen ↗SOKO München bei ZDF verpasst? Ganze Folge kostenlos online sehen! ↗
ZDF and ARD Mediathek apps plus fernsehserien.de and sendungverpasst.de already cover what-is-available and rerun schedules; the specific 'expiring-soon' alert is a narrow gap that broadcasters could trivially close themselves, leaving only a small wedge.Sendung verpasst? Ihre Mediathek für alle TV-Sender ↗Verfügbarkeit in der ARD Mediathek ↗
GEZ-funded Mediatheken are free and ad-light, German consumers are notoriously price-sensitive for small streaming tools, and comparable aggregators (fernsehserien.de, sendungverpasst.de) stay free with ads — willingness to pay for a subscription or even a few-Euro one-off for an alert layer looks weak.fernsehserien.de - Episodenführer, Serienreviews und News ↗Sendung verpasst? Ihre Mediathek für alle TV-Sender ↗
SOKO and similar long-running public-broadcaster formats have been on air for decades and the Mediathek-Verweildauer model is anchored in the Medienstaatsvertrag, so the underlying behavior is durable — but the niche itself is at risk if ZDF/ARD bolt expiry warnings into their existing apps.Verfügbarkeit & Verweildauer in der ARD Mediathek | ARD Hilfe ↗
Building an expiry-radar is technically straightforward — Mediatheken expose metadata and most shows have predictable 7–30 day windows, so an MVP scraping/parsing Mediathek feeds plus a notification layer is well within a 1–2 week scope.SOKO München in der ZDFmediathek streamen - fernsehserien.de ↗