Canadian Paralympic Broadcast Media Consortium takes home gold for Rio 2016

ABU DHABI, UAE - The Canadian Paralympic Broadcast Media Consortium has won the 2017 Paralympic Media Award in the broadcast category for its coverage of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.The prize is awarded by the International Paralympic Committee to the TV or radio broadcaster that presented the highest quality and most dynamic coverage of Rio 2016.The unique Consortium model saw the Canadian Paralympic Committee acquire the domestic broadcast and digital rights to the Paralympic Games. The Consortium, which included CBC/Radio-Canada, Sportsnet, Yahoo! Sports, AMI, SendtoNews, Videogami and Facebook Canada, provided over 1,200 hours of coverage over the course of the...