TORONTO – Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium is gearing up to deliver a record 57 hours of high-definition television coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in English and French from March 12-21, 2010.
This marks the most hours of coverage ever delivered to Canadian audiences, and the first time the Paralympic Winter Games are being produced entirely in HD by a Canadian rights-holder.
The Consortium’s offering includes 27 hours of coverage in English on CTV, TSN and Rogers Sportsnet, as well as 30 hours of coverage in French on RDS and RIS Info Sports. Highlights include the Opening Ceremony, live coverage of Team Canada’s sledge hockey games, and a daily 90-minute recap show with highlights, results and medal standings.
Coverage will also be available on TAC (The Accessible Channel), a digital television service for people who are blind, vision-impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, and on Voiceprint, an audio newsstand that broadcasts top stories from Canadian newspapers and magazines into Canadian homes.
In addition to television, coverage will include radio, print and two dedicated websites CTVParalympics.ca and RDSparalympiques.ca.
The 10-day international competition features approximately 650 athletes from more than 40 countries taking part in five sports: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, sledge hockey, wheelchair curling, and biathlon.
