Sportsnet, AMI-tv also contributing
PYEONGCHANG – CBC/Radio-Canada announced Monday it will offer over 600 hours of coverage of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games across all broadcast partners and digital platforms.
Broadcast coverage will be available daily on CBC and Radio-Canada with digital live-streams available on cbcsports.ca/paralympics and Radio-Canada.ca/jeuxparalympiques, as well as the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android. Broadcast partners Sportsnet and AMI-tv will also offer regular coverage of key competitions, says the press release.
“As Canada’s Paralympic Network, we are dedicated to providing extensive, in-depth coverage of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games across multiple platforms to keep audiences at home informed of and engaged in our athletes’ journeys and their peak moments of success, to be celebrated by all Canadians,” said Greg Stremlaw, executive director, CBC Sports, in the release.
CBC will offer daily TV broadcasts throughout the 10-day event, totaling 38 hours including live coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies, and the men’s gold medal para ice hockey game.
CBC’s broadcast schedule features live coverage from 6-10 a.m. ET (3-7 a.m. PT) on Saturdays and 6-9:30 a.m. ET (3-6:30 a.m. PT) on Sundays, with highlights shown from 4-6 p.m. local time Monday-Friday, keeping Canadians connected to the athletes and their stories.
In addition, CBC will offer approximately 300 hours of live streaming content, featuring the six sports – alpine skiing, ice hockey, cross-country skiing, biathlon, snowboard, and wheelchair curling – with up to four digital streams per day via cbcsports.ca/paralympics and the CBC Sports app.
Described video will be offered on all 38 hours of CBC’s television coverage, and on the simulcast digital live-streams of live broadcasts and the broadcasts from the Atlantic time zone if aired locally, provided by Descriptive Video Works and Accessible Media.
The event kicks off with a live broadcast of the opening ceremony at 5:30 a.m. ET (2:30 a.m. PT) on CBC with a pre-show hosted by Andi Petrillo, and broadcaster and 19-time Paralympic medalist Stephanie Dixon, with Scott Russell contributing from on the ground in Pyeongchang. A primetime broadcast of the Opening Ceremony will air later that day on CBC at 8 p.m. local time.
Throughout the Games, Russell will host the weekend morning and weekday afternoon coverage, while Petrillo and Dixon will host the weekend afternoon shows. They will be joined by a broadcast team including reporters Josh Dueck, a double-medalist at the Sochi 2014 Paralympics in alpine skiing; Lauren Woolstencroft, one of the best alpine skiers in the world, with 10 medals across three Paralympic Games; play-by-play/analysts Chris Daw (analyst, wheelchair curling), a Paralympic wheelchair curling gold medalist; Paul Rosen (analyst, ice hockey), a former member of the Canadian Paralympic sledge hockey team; and gold medalist Rob Snoek (play-by-play, ice hockey and wheelchair curling), a veteran broadcaster and Paralympian.
For the full release, including the full broadcast schedule, click here.
