City set to host Paralympic content

Channel 4 has announced its most ambitious ever plans for coverage of the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

The multi-location studio format will see the broadcaster produce over 300 hours of content and will see its Paralympic Breakfast Show and morning sports competition coming live from Leeds.

Alongside this the channel’s highlights show will come from Tokyo, before returning to Leeds for an early evening show celebrating ParalympicsGB medals of the day. The line up will then be closed by The Last Leg which will be broadcast live from London.

Clare Balding will present live sport finals from Leeds, which take place UK morning time, whilst Arthur Williams and Steph McGovern – who has been fronting her lunchtime show from Leeds for over a year, including a stint from her kitchen – will head up a daily Paralympics Breakfast Show from the same location.

In a first for Channel 4 which has multi-platform broadcast rights within the UK the firm has committed to 16 live streams on its Paralympics Microsite, showing over 1,000 hours – meaning more live sport than ever before will be available to audiences.

Channel 4’s director of programmes Ian Katz said: “Channel 4 has long played a fundamental role in bringing a global audience to the Paralympic Games and for shifting perceptions of disabled people through our significant investment in coverage and award-winning marketing campaigns for London 2012 and Rio 2016.

“Now we’re finally able to get excited about bringing the long-awaited Tokyo 2020 Paralympics to UK viewers with even more coverage than ever before across multiple platforms, from multiple locations and hosted by a stellar presenting team.

“We’re looking forward to bringing the best coverage possible to the British public so we can all get behind ParalympicsGB and celebrate their success in Tokyo.”

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will take place from 24 August – 06 September.