Tokyo Paralympics Broadcast Coverage

[WD96]

With the Paralympics are coming, its time we discuss the coverage of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

[Sir Rols]

I suspect we in Australia will as usual just get a daily half or one hour highlights package. And i doubt I’ll tune in.  

[JMarkSnow2012]

Channel 4 in the UK aim to show around 300 hours of the Tokyo Paralympics on TV, and around 1,000 hours streamed

 

[Quaker2001]

NBC stepping up big time for this one.. NBC Universal to air record Paralympic coverage from Tokyo, including primetime

[BigVic]

https://www.canstarblue.com.au/streaming/watch-tokyo-2020-paralympics/
 

Seven in Australia has blanket coverage of the Paralympics on 7, 7mate and online on 7plus. 

[BigVic]

Bring it on. 

[Victorian]

In Australia we will have the Seven Network broadcasting the games. Hopefully they are better then their terrible coverage of Winters in 2018.

Seven (main channel), 7mate as well as 16 live streams on the 7plus app will also be used.

[Brekkie Boy]

Good to see a significant increase of coverage from the OBS.   Some of those missing are a bit odd - Fencing must be one of the easiest to film you'd have thought, and similarly Taekwondo is an odd exception given Judo has long got coveraged.

Good to see C4 adding More4 to their coverage plans, using it mainly for team sports with athletics, swimming and cycling likely to dominate the C4 coverage.   A shame they don't use 4Seven as well, but maybe by Paris they will.   They'll air the 16 streams online but no word if they'll be available via All4 so you can watch on your TV.

More details here - unlike the BBC they will have some live presentation in Tokyo with overnight coverage, along with the 5pm highlights show.  The daytime coverage and 7.30pm highlights come from Leeds, with The Last Leg in it's London studio, which given the time difference probably works best anyway.

https://www.svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/tokyo-leeds-london-channel-4-outlines-the-grand-plan-for-its-most-in-depth-paralympic-coverage-yet/

[Brekkie Boy]

Full press release, schedule and commentator/pundit line up for C4's coverage.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-coverage-tokyo-2020-paralympic-games

 

In Australia Channel 7 have now promoted the Opening Ceremony coverage to the main channel, but on a delay with the broadcast beginning at 9.15pm (ceremony start 9pm Aussie time).   Their daily coverage is mainly on 7Mate but with four hours each afternoon on the main channel.