This is the second round time table, if matches are shown on free TV, that's mentioned.
Tuesday, October the 29th:
18.00 CET:
Offenbach - Karlsruhe
Augsburg - Schalke
Leverkusen - Elversberg
Leipzig - St Pauli
20.45 CET:
Stuttgart - Lautern
Regensburg - Fürth
Wolfsburg - Dortmund (live on ARD)
Köln - Kiel
Wednesday, October the 30th:
18.00 CET:
Freiburg - Hamburg
Hertha BSC - Heidenheim
Frankfurt - Gladbach
Paderborn - Bremen
20.45 CET:
Bielefeld - Union
Dresden - Darmstadt
Mainz - Bayern (live on ZDF)
Hoffenheim - Nürnberg
So the TV stations decided to show Bayern and Dortmund, how unbelievable creative, since it's not like the always show these teams. Of course I'm aware that the two of them are the clubs with the biggest following. Yet, ARD and ZDF are financed by public money with the explicite order to reflect diversity of opinion and society. That why broadcasting fees are collected,wit explicite mention of minority opinions and intersts for crying out loud! How about not running for ratings , if you're financed by a fee also collected from people, who aren't fans of the two biggest clubs, for a change?
The cup's attractive because of possible upsets everybody is longing for- they should have shown two out of the matches at Offenbach, Dresden, and Bielefeld respectively. That is without even mentioning that those three clubs could do with a bit of recognition gor eliminating clubs from leagues higher in the pyramide in the first round! If it has to be matches between their precious Buli teams that they show Frankfurt Gladbach would've been a good alternative between clubs, that both have over 100k members! Well, at least, Bayern and Dortmund play away at Buli clubs and don't have home matches against 2.Liga clubs, saying that because the TV stations had shown the latter, as well, despite the almost inexistant potential for an upset these matches would have had. Rant over!