Watch Paralympic Sports Events Live Online Paralympic Sport TV

Author: Ian C. Langtree - View Credentials
Published: 13 Feb 2009 - Updated: 28 Jun 2010

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Synopsis

Paralympic Sport TV is a top quality online television channel broadcasting live sport and paralympics events via the Internet .

Overview

Free of charge, people all over the world are able to watch live and delayed disability sports programming, or see the Paralympic games coverage live or on demand at anytime.

The goal of Paralympic Sport TV is to provide a variety of content from the Paralympic World including news, interviews, event reports and of course the Paralympic Games.

Paralympic Sport TV, the internet TV channel of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), was first launched just before the Torino 2006 Paralympic Games. Around 40.000 unique viewers watched more than 80 hours of live or delayed program of the Torino Paralympics online. In 2006, the IPC Athletics World Championships in Assen and the IPC Swimming World Championships in Durban were also broadcasted on Paralympic Sport TV.

During the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, PSTV broadcasted up to 15 hours per day of live commentated coverage. The live signals of twelve Paralympic sports included Athletics, Boccia, Cycling (Track), Football 7-a-side, Judo, Table Tennis, Swimming, Volleyball (Sitting), Wheelchair Basketball, Wheelchair Fencing, Wheelchair Rugby, and Wheelchair Tennis. The official program of Paralympic Sport TV has an interesting mixture of sports, interviews, events and athletes.

The IPC's channel is managed by brandstage GmbH, co-founding partner of Paralympic Sport TV together with the IPC and Narrowstep Ltd. As a full service internet television agency based in Hamburg, Germany, brandstage provides the production and editorial work for the channel. Narrowstep Ltd. provides the broadcast platform and technology for the coverage on Paralympic Sport TV. As the world's leading technical solution provider in the Internet TV space, Narrowstep was founded in 2002 in Great Britain. The channel is supported by Samsung, official Worldwide Partner of the IPC.

Author Credentials: Ian C. Langtree is a writer, editor, and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Disabled World, which he established in 2004 as one of the longest-running independent resources for disability news and information. Over more than two decades, he has written and edited thousands of articles on disability rights, health, accessibility, and assistive technology. Drawing on a global perspective shaped by extensive travel and lived experience, Ian is a committed advocate of the Social Model of Disability, the framework developed by disabled activists in the 1970s that focuses on removing societal barriers rather than on individual impairments. His writing is grounded in that framework and in a lasting commitment to disability rights, accessibility, and social inclusion. To learn more about Ian's background, expertise, and accomplishments, visit his full biography.