In France, TF1 and M6 were the only ones in line for TV rights for the event. However, their deal only covers half (25) of the matches, including all of the French team matches, 5 matches of round of 16 and all QF and SF matches; M6 airs the grand final exclusively on FTA. However, there was no word of any pay-TV broadcaster, which would broadcast all 51 matches. Although there were rumours Amazon and Canal+ were bidding, and TF1 and M6 looking to extend their contract exceptionally, UEFA was already in advanced stages of negotiation with beIN Sports France, but its own bid and editorial plans were considered inferior by the body, according to BFMTV/RMC Sport.
Finally, just a week before the competition begins, the Qatari broadcaster and UEFA have reached a deal which also allows them broadcasting Euro 2028 in full (with TF1 airing half of them FTA), and announced its special programming for this year's tournament, with few surprises: alongside airing all matches, there is its expected line-up of beIN Bleus, Club EURO and EURO Show, plus its team of announcers and presenters (Marcel Desailly, Sonny Anderson, Daniel Bravo, Omar Da Fonseca, Luis Fernandez, Darren Tulett, Florian Genton, Thomas Thouroude, Vanessa Le Moigne, Claire Arnoux...)
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As for TF1, for this year's event is also business as usual: Denis Brogniart leads its pre- and post-match show, with the exact same team of analysts and panellists as in their 2022 World Cup coverage (Nadia Benmokthar, Adil Rami, Rio Mavuba and Marine Marck, who will report across Germany during the event). Thomas Mekhiche will fill in for Grégoire Margotton (who will call France's matches and the top ones alongside Bixente Lizarazu, as TF1's football announcers of record, plus Saber Desfarges as field reporter) and present a special edition of
Téléfoot every Sunday during the entirety of the tournament, which will also include a weekly interview with Didier Deschamps. The B-team of announcers is led by Julien Brun and Sabrina Delannoy, who already served such capacity for Euro 2020.
TF1’s news service will also send its sports reporter Christophe Abel to cover the event, and Téléfoot reporter Sébastien Barnaud will produce a documentary on Kylian Mbappé; that documentary will air on Sunday night after the France-Canada match (Sunday will be particularly busy for TF1, with a very short 20h news and European election special being followed by the match). TF1+ will stream all matchs with RT stats, plus exclusive video content, full match summaries and AI-generated summaries called Top Chrono, in which viewers will be allowed to get a 5, 10 or 15-minute summary delivered at their fingertips; fantasy football and live chats will also be offered. The coverage will also employ a theme song: legendary new wave rock band Indochine will drop a new single on June 14, and TF1 will use a specially-comissioned rework of it for its coverage.
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For M6, their plans are getting more and more interesting: long a serious analysis show done from one of M6’s news studios, its pre- and post-match show
100% EURO is having a big metamorphosis this year: after Marie Portolano’s defection to France 2, Prime Video Ligue 1 commentator Smaïl Bouabdellah will host a “nouvelle formule” of the debrief programme for this year’s event, which will be more entertainment-led. The changes include a new graphics, a new team of analysts and panelists (Laurie Samama, Alain Boghossian and others), and a move to RTL’s
Grand Studio (long used for
Les Grosses Têtes), which will allow them to include a live studio audience for the first time, plus comedy skits and segments (led by stand-up comedians Samuel Bambi, Younes Depardieu and Julien Santini), including a parody VAR segment which will be able to interrupt the show’s normal rundown.
Additionally, M6’s current affairs teams (which produce
Capital,
Zone interdite and
Enquête exclusive, among others, under the C. Productions banner) will produce its own Mbappé documentary, and the network’s daily serial
Scènes de ménages will feature a guest appearance from Djibril Cissé. All of M6’s matches will also stream on M6+, which will also feature exclusive documentaries, match summaries and its Fan XP live player with RT stats.
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Over in Spain, RTVE has announced its coverage will have a unique twist: for the first time, select Euro matches will be called by a female announcer, Alicia Arévalo, alongside its existing team of Juan Carlos Rivero, David Figueira, Paco Grande, Albert Font and Paco Caro. The broadcaster will employ three female commentators, Vero Boquete, Vicky Losada and Miriam Diéguez; the move is part of the broadcaster’s increased reliance to include more female voices on its sports programming, with emphasis on its men’s football coverage. RTVE will be on-site in Berlin; even if the matches will be produced only in HD HDR, the network will produced its studio coverage in UHD and will premier a new OB unit and production cameras. The network is also bringing a special song for the event,
Brillos platino, from Spanish singer Almacor, one of the finalists of this year's Benidorm Fest, Spain's ESC national selection. Their coverage, which will involve RTVE airing all 51 matches, was announced in conjunction with that of the Olympics.
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