Summer Paralympic Games Paris 2024

[TeamGB 216]

If you can get a VPN then Channel 4 in the UK is a great broadcaster of para sport.

[Dragon 2,062]

1 hour ago, TeamGB said:

If you can get a VPN then Channel 4 in the UK is a great broadcaster of para sport.

I think it will be 14-15 hours coverage every day?

[Olympian1010 8,284]

On the topic of broadcasting, here's the list of rights holders put together by the IPC: https://www.paralympic.org/paris-2024/news/where-to-watch

[heywoodu 16,434]

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

On the topic of broadcasting, here's the list of rights holders put together by the IPC: https://www.paralympic.org/paris-2024/news/where-to-watch

 

Like with so many sports, they have the rights and then end up using those rights for like a 3 minute segment in the sports news, because of which all other options to actually watch live are geo-blocked....

[Grassmarket 4,249]

6 hours ago, Dragon said:

I think it will be 14-15 hours coverage every day?

That is what is on TV, and a lot more on their YT Channel.

 

But usually at the Paralympics coverage is pretty patchy.  At London we got all the easy-and-cheap-to-cover track cycling, but literally none of the more expensive road cycling.  That's the general rule - indoors and static, lots of coverage, outdoors and mobile.....maybe not.

 

All they are saying is "more coverage than ever before"....

 

 

Edited August 21, 2024 by Grassmarket

[Dragon 2,062]

6 hours ago, Dragon said:

I think it will be 14-15 hours coverage every day?

Google "The Last Leg" on YouTube.

It began as a 2012 Paralympic programme but has become one of the most popular programmes on UK TV since then.

[Grassmarket 4,249]

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

On the topic of broadcasting, here's the list of rights holders put together by the IPC: https://www.paralympic.org/paris-2024/news/where-to-watch

I imagine that like the Olympics the official YT Channel will be heavily geo-blocked in most major territories and will restrict itself to the hugging and crying side of things. 

[Orangehair43 312]

8 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

That is what is on TV, and a lot more on their YT Channel.

 

But usually at the Paralympics coverage is pretty patchy.  At London we got all the easy-and-cheap-to-cover track cycling, but literally none of the more expensive road cycling.  That's the general rule - indoors and static, lots of coverage, outdoors and mobile.....maybe not.

 

All they are saying is "more coverage than ever before"....

 

 

A lot of the outdoor moving stuff was covered in Tokyo so I suspect it will all be covered now. 

[Nickyc707 382]

10 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

That is what is on TV, and a lot more on their YT Channel.

 

But usually at the Paralympics coverage is pretty patchy.  At London we got all the easy-and-cheap-to-cover track cycling, but literally none of the more expensive road cycling.  That's the general rule - indoors and static, lots of coverage, outdoors and mobile.....maybe not.

 

All they are saying is "more coverage than ever before"....

 

 

I seem to recall watching some of the road racing at London because it was actually relatively easy for the broadcaster to cover as it all took place on the motor racing circuit at Brands Hatch.

 

We've subsequently had coverage of the road racing at more recent Games. Certainly in Tokyo where some of the events took place in absolutely torrential rain. 

[Nickyc707 382]

10 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

Like with so many sports, they have the rights and then end up using those rights for like a 3 minute segment in the sports news, because of which all other options to actually watch live are geo-blocked....

If you can access any of their platforms Channel 4 are covering it daily continuously from 8am to 1130pm UK time. Full details are provided here.

 

https://paralympics.org.uk/articles/where-to-watch-the-paris-2024-paralympic-games

Edited August 22, 2024 by Nickyc707