PBS obtains Euro 2016 media rights

The Public Broadcasting Services had obtained exclusive media rights for the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament that will be held in France this summer.

Live free-to-air coverage of every game in the month-long tournament will be available on TVMHD and TVM2HD, as well as on TVM’s web portal and all mobile services.

The 15th UEFA European Football Championship will be held between 10 June and 10 July. For the first time, 24 teams will take part in the final tournament

Finalists are drawn into six groups of four, with the group winners, the six runners-up, and the four best third- placed teams advancing to the round of 16: when the competition becomes a knockout with direct elimination all the way to the final.

Spain are the tournament’s two-time defending champions.

The matches will be played in ten stadia in ten cities: Bordeaux, Lens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Saint-Denis, Saint-Étienne and Toulouse: with three viewer friendly kick-off slots: 15:00, 18:00 and 21:00. Both the opening match between France and Romania, and the final, will take place at the Stade de France (Saint-Denis).

This is the third time that France is hosting the tournament, after the inaugural edition in 1960, and 1984.