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During the European Football Championship in Germany, there is a comprehensive streaming and TV offering to watch all games live.
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The wait for the European Football Championship is over! If you don’t want to miss any highlights, you can follow them live on these channels.
The 2024 European Football Championship begins on Friday and promises to be a sporting event of superlatives. The broadcasting rights for all 51 games are held by MagentaTV, Telekom’s pay-TV service. Thanks to sublicenses, however, ARD, ZDF and RTL broadcast many games on free TV, so football fans have a wide range of broadcast options. This means that football fans can watch all the games live.
The 2024 European Football Championship will be broadcast extensively on television and as a live stream in Germany. MagentaTV has secured the rights to all 51 matches of the tournament. However, only five of these games will be shown exclusively on MagentaTV, including the meeting between Germany’s group opponents Hungary and Switzerland on the first matchday.
ARD, ZDF and RTL can broadcast a total of 46 games live via sublicenses. RTL works closely with MagentaTV and broadcasts 12 games, ARD and ZDF each have the rights to 17 games. These include all of the German national team’s games, including the opening game on June 14 in Munich and the final a month later in Berlin. ZDF will broadcast the opening game on June 14, ARD the final on July 14.
Various options for live streams and broadcasts
The broadcast of the 2024 European Championship offers fans various options. In addition to the paid option via MagentaTV, many games can be seen on free TV on ARD, ZDF and RTL. Joyn (ARD and ZDF) and RTL+ are available for live streams, although the latter requires a paid subscription.
In addition to the group game mentioned above, exclusive games on MagentaTV include the matches between Slovenia and Serbia and Scotland and Hungary, as well as another group game and a round of 16 match.
Experts and moderators during the European Championship 2024
The coverage of the European Championship will be accompanied by a large number of well-known experts and presenters. Lothar Matthäus (61) can be seen on both RTL and MagentaTV. Other experts include Tabea Kemme (32), Michael Ballack (47), Tim Borowski (44) and Owen Hargreaves (43). Fabian Reese (26) will appear in the “Reaction Show” for a younger target group. ARD relies on Almuth Schult (33), Bastian Schweinsteiger (39), Thomas Hitzlsperger (42) and Thomas Broich (43), while ZDF relies on Christoph Kramer (33), Per Mertesacker (39) and Manuel Gräfe (50). A new face in the ZDF team is René Adler (39).
Johannes B. Kerner (59) and Laura Wontorra (35) will be presenting for MagentaTV and RTL. Katrin Müller-Hohenstein (58) and Jochen Breyer (41) will be presenting for ZDF, while Esther Sedlaczek (39) and Alexander Bommes (48) will be presenting for ARD.
New during the European Championship: real-time updates and special formats
For those who cannot watch the games live, Telekom will provide real-time updates on more than 5,500 digital screens in train stations, shopping centers and on subway and S-Bahn platforms. ARD also plans to share goals and highlights promptly via social media. ARD will also be organizing the evening with a new EM pub quiz, while MagentaTV will be focusing on unusual occurrences on match day with the show “Pille-Palle”. In addition, the highlights of all 51 EM games will be available 15 minutes after the final whistle on RTL+ and in the ARD and ZDF media libraries.