With more than 17 hours of daily sport, the broadcaster is claiming to have the world’s best Tokyo package
When Channel 4’s coverage of the Paralympics begins on Tuesday viewers will be spoilt for choice, with more than 1,300 hours of events on offer, almost triple the coverage of the home Games in London 2012, and the broadcaster turning over its flagship channel to the Olympics for a staggering 17.5 hours each day.
The wall-to-wall coverage offered by what has become the world’s leading Paralympic broadcaster since it struck an unprecedented TV rights deal for the London Games will see it deliver almost three times more hours than the BBC managed with its restrictive rights deal to broadcast the Tokyo Olympic Games.
