So Misguided

FYI: There is no live broadcast of the Paralympic Opening Ceremony. It starts at 6 pm PST this Friday night, and runs 2 hours and 8 minutes. If you’re interested, good luck.

CTV and NBC intend to package it and transmit it in the early afternoon Saturday (check your listings).

As for watching the Games, CTV plans to only broadcast the sledge hockey games that include a Canadian team live, and is only carrying a total of 25 English hours of about 200 hours available, most of it in nightly 90-minute packages. For those of you who tried to watch NBC’s coverage of the Olympics, the Paralympic coverage will be even worst. NBC plans a total of 20 hours, some of it weeks after the events are held.

For diligent, internet-bound viewers, you can watch the Opening Ceremony live. The International Paralympic Committee has a web broadcast site that will carry it (and most of the Games competitions) live.

Here’s the address:

http://www.ParalympicSport.tv

(Source: Peter Morgan, thank you!)

Posted by Monique at 07:07 PM. Filed under: News •

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The Paralympics WERE broadcast live across British Columbia on CTV, and rebroadcast on Saturday for the full period (no editing).  One cannot possibly expect all Paralympic events to be broadcast on the major network - the IPC brings in very little sponsorship to do so.  Broadcasters don’t do charity work - everyone knows that.

Yes, CTV changed their tune and decided to broadcast the event live in BC. I think that’s because people voiced interest in it.

I agree that you can’t expect ALL Paralympic events to be broadcast, but I do expect more Canadian coverage given that we’re hosting the Games.