paralympics
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Seems a bit rubbish if its true!0
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Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.0
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Nope. only ~GB and Australia are broadcasting live. rude!0
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Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Ah of course. A sport only played in the US is naturally far more important....
Seriously. Sometimes you americans really don't do your own reputation any favours. Rise above the stereotype!0 -
I am an American and I have to say that even though I do not agree with it...it seems to be true that football will be aired on every available channel. I do not care much for football but it is crazy how serious it is taken here in the US. The stations go with what will get the most views...it is almost a fight over who will be able to show what game. I would love to see the paralympics (I have never seen them).0
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Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Real football involves using your feet, playing a full 90 minutes, no time outs, no video replay delays and is the most beautiful game known to humankind (a fact that is appreciated by the 95% of the world's population outside of the USA....):happy:
Sadly we have very limited coverage of the Paralympics here in Canada too.0 -
Why should US coverage revolve around what's popular in the rest of the world? That's stupid.Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Ah of course. A sport only played in the US is naturally far more important....
Seriously. Sometimes you americans really don't do your own reputation any favours. Rise above the stereotype!0 -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/paralympics-2012-coverage_n_1840434.html?utm_hp_ref=impact
This says something about US coverage.....0 -
Why should US coverage revolve around what's popular in the rest of the world? That's stupid.Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Ah of course. A sport only played in the US is naturally far more important....
Seriously. Sometimes you americans really don't do your own reputation any favours. Rise above the stereotype!
Not as stupid as people imagining that just because people are disabled, their sport is somehow insignificant. YOU have athletes here. Or do they just not matter as much as your "able bodied" competitors?0 -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/paralympics-2012-coverage_n_1840434.html?utm_hp_ref=impact
This says something about US coverage.....
Thanks, that's a really interesting article. I do tend to agree with activists who can't understand why the coverage is so scaled back though. Seems a shame.0 -
I think because the paralympics are also going on when pre-season football is going on..they wont show it....i do think its sad.0
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It's ridiculous. I would LOVE to watch the paralympics (as someone in a wheelchair it really inspires me), but every time I can never find any coverage...0
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Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Ah of course. A sport only played in the US is naturally far more important....
Seriously. Sometimes you americans really don't do your own reputation any favours. Rise above the stereotype!
What? I don't think anyone would say the paralympics isn't a good thing, American or not. The fact of the matter is it won't get watched by enough people... so why would a network put it on tv?? Plus we know our athletes will take home the most medals0 -
Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Ah of course. A sport only played in the US is naturally far more important....
Seriously. Sometimes you americans really don't do your own reputation any favours. Rise above the stereotype!
What? I don't think anyone would say the paralympics isn't a good thing, American or not. The fact of the matter is it won't get watched by enough people... so why would a network put it on tv?? Plus we know our athletes will take home the most medals
It won't get watched. But no-one thinks it isn't important.
Huh?
there's a vicious cycle in operation. It isn't shown. So it isn't watched. So people think it doesn't matter. (And you might know a bit more about your own team's rather limited chances, if you were able to actually watch the events... )0 -
Canadian and we don't have any coverage of the paralympics.
I would really like to watch swimming it is amazing how some of them are blind and still swim.
Being a national competitor for swimming I got to see swimmers with no legs and arms, blind etc swim and it is amazing.0 -
I don't know whether the live video feeds will work outside the UK, but many events will be streamed live on paralympics.channel4.com. Worth a shot - the opening ceremony is on there now!0
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http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Global/Issues/2012/08/28/Media/Paralympics.aspxLOCOG said that more than 100 countries "will take TV coverage of the Paralympics," according to Jacquelin Magnay of the London TELEGRAPH. Eleven new deals, including a contract with the European Broadcast Union, has resulted in a total of 36 separate broadcast contracts. Int'l Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven claimed the cumulative TV audience will tally "a record four billion worldwide," beating the figures of 3.8 billion from the '08 Beijing Paralympics. Channel 4's £9M ($14M) contract to broadcast the Games within the U.K. "was a record for the Paralympic movement." The Games also have "a Paralympic specific sponsor" in online grocery store Sainsbury's. The new contracts are for American markets of the U.S., Canada, South and Central America -- including Venezuela -- New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Ireland and Iran.0
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Sorry to hear you can't see it!
I've been looking foward to this for ages! I can't believe it's not being shown, it's not been shown on the BBC here but on a commercial channel and I'm not sure if they have international branches or not : /
Perhaps they'll be a channel showing highlights?0 -
Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Think again, this is the biggest ever Paralympics, tickets almost sold out 2.5million on offer - 2.4million sold. It is a shame the US could not even use one of it's 100 channels to air it.0 -
Actually kind of aggravated that there isn't coverage (and I'm American). I have a good friend who's part of the women's basketball team (defending champs from Beijing), so I'll be following the results and watching the webcast when I can.0
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Perhaps they'll be a channel showing highlights?
There was a youtube channel showing Olympic highlights, I don't see why there couldn't be one for Paralympic highlights.0 -
Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Ah of course. A sport only played in the US is naturally far more important....
Seriously. Sometimes you americans really don't do your own reputation any favours. Rise above the stereotype!
What? I don't think anyone would say the paralympics isn't a good thing, American or not. The fact of the matter is it won't get watched by enough people... so why would a network put it on tv?? Plus we know our athletes will take home the most medals
because you have enough channels to just let ONE of them air it. Regarding your athlets taking home the most medals well for one, you will never know as you won't be watching it and two, if you do take home the most medals what a shame those US athletes never had the backing nor the support of their own nation.0 -
the US doesnt play alot of different sports on the television. its not like theyre just excluding paralympics.
also, truthfully, how many people would watch it?
only few countries arent showing it. the US arent the only ones.0 -
Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Ah of course. A sport only played in the US is naturally far more important....
Seriously. Sometimes you americans really don't do your own reputation any favours. Rise above the stereotype!
What? I don't think anyone would say the paralympics isn't a good thing, American or not. The fact of the matter is it won't get watched by enough people... so why would a network put it on tv?? Plus we know our athletes will take home the most medals
Hahahaha.. Nice try but I bet US will not take home most of the medals. You guys came third in Beijing behind China and the UK. Of course you maye improve in London, but it would be despite the lack of home support, and even if you did take a massive clutch of medals there would, sadly, be few Americans who saw it happen.0 -
the US doesnt play alot of different sports on the television. its not like theyre just excluding paralympics.
also, truthfully, how many people would watch it?
only few countries arent showing it. the US arent the only ones.
You need to widen your horizons a bit there. Millions are watching it, it is a shame you are missing out, there are US athletes there you know.0 -
Nope, no coverage. We are about to start the college football (real football, not soccer) season and the NFL. Nobody would be watching the paralympics.
Ah of course. A sport only played in the US is naturally far more important....
Seriously. Sometimes you americans really don't do your own reputation any favours. Rise above the stereotype!
What? I don't think anyone would say the paralympics isn't a good thing, American or not. The fact of the matter is it won't get watched by enough people... so why would a network put it on tv?? Plus we know our athletes will take home the most medals
because you have enough channels to just let ONE of them air it. Regarding your athlets taking home the most medals well for one, you will never know as you won't be watching it and two, if you do take home the most medals what a shame those US athletes never had the backing nor the support of their own nation.
Yes we have lots of channels... but they aren't govt. run and your typical American doesn't own any of the networks that own the channels. So this broad statement insinuating how terrible Americans are because we aren't going bat *kitten* crazy over the Paralympics is ridiculous. I'm guessing it's running on the BBC in the UK.. and isn't that Govt. operated? Our channels are operated by companies, who are going to play what is in the most demand.
If you really wanted to compare who cares more about people with disabilities why don't you look at who donates the most money... not who watches the most events.0 -
No. It's running on a commercial channel, channel 4.
Your guessing isn't helping you along much on this thread, is it?0 -
If you really wanted to compare who cares more about people with disabilities why don't you look at who donates the most money... not who watches the most events.
But yes, I'm sure you're good at giving money to people. As long as you don't have to... you know.... *look* at them....0 -
If you really wanted to compare who cares more about people with disabilities why don't you look at who donates the most money... not who watches the most events.
But yes, I'm sure you're good at giving money to people. As long as you don't have to... you know.... *look* at them....
Wow, you're seriously a pile!0 -
We have plenty of able-bodied sports that never get coverage either. It's about advertising dollars. Channels don't pick shows because they like the stories, or they want to promote values or anything else. Channels select programming based on what will gather the most pairs of eyeballs. So they can sell the most advertising possible during the commercial breaks.
Don't be a victim, please. WNBA is a professional sport and it gets ignored by TV for the most part because people don't watch.
The RNC is only getting an hour of coverage a day from the major networks, is that because of a huge conspiracy to keep us uninformed? No, it's because people won't watch. And the results of that are going to chage our lives a lot more than any athletic endeavors.0
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