BBC Coverage of Paralympics
(See proposed schedule at bottom of page)
BBC television
coverage of the Paralympics will be more extensive than ever before, action will
be streamed live for six hours a day through the red button and via broadband.
There will be live terrestrial/red button coverage at the weekends and the
opening and closing ceremonies will also be broadcast live including the
handover to London moment on the final day.
Daily midweek programmes on BBC2 between 7pm and 8pm will be available on high
definition (HD) and on iPlayer.
Clare Balding and Steve Cram will present the programmes from the Bird's Nest
stadium.
There will be more live coverage than from Athens 12 different sports in all and
there will be two BBC roving crews to record additional material.
Athletics, swimming, cycling, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby will
comprise the backbone of the BBC's TV coverage throughout the Games, but will be
supplemented by coverage of other sports, particularly those in which
ParalympicsGB have strong medal hopes like equestrian and wheelchair tennis.
GB have two football sides competing and adaptive rowing is a new Paralympic
sport.
Commentators and reporters include Paul Dickenson, Bob Ballard, Eddie Butler,
Ronald McIntosh, Nick Mullins, Eddie Butler, Phil Jones, Rishi Persad and Lizzie
Greenwood-Hughes.
They will be joined by Paralympians Tanni Grey-Thompson, along with Ade Adepitan
and Marc Woods as guest commentators.
All the coverage will be streamed on the BBC's award-winning Disability Sport
website, where there will also be a daily blog written from Beijing as well as
reports and photos on all the main action, results and medal table bbc.co.uk/paralympics.
BBC Radio 5 Live will bring all the news throughout the Paralympic Games with a
dedicated team of reporters in Beijing. There will also be live commentary from
some key events featuring strong British interest.
Other programmes covering Paralympic stories include: News, Olympic Diaries,
Blue Peter and Radio Five Live to name just a few.
NETWORK AND INTERACTIVE TIMINGS SEPT 6th - 17th
Please note this is a rough guide of sports that are likely to be broadcast each day however for either editorial or schedule changes this is not a definitive list and is liable to change. Please note that the sports shown are only those that may be shown each day and none are guaranteed to be shown.
All times shown are BST
Saturday 6th
BBC1 1250-1630 Opening Ceremony
Sunday 7th
BBC2 1330-1530
Wheelchair Basketball - Men GB v China &
Women GB Australia
Track Cycling and Swimming
Judo/ Football 5-a-side/ Shooting
Interactive
1000-1300
Track Cycling/Swimming
Wheelchair Basketball - Men GB v
China
Monday 8th
BBC2 1900-2000
Interactive 1000-1600
Track Cycling/Swimming/Athletics
Wheelchair Basketball - Men GB v Australia
Judo/Equestrian/ Rowing Heats
Tuesday 9th
BBC2 1900-2000
Interactive 1000-1600
Track Cycling/ Swimming/Athletics
Wheelchair Basketball - Women GB v Brazil
Rowing Heats Equestrian, Boccia Judo/Tennis/Powerlifting/Table Tennis
LIVE Wheelchair Basketball - Men GB v USA
Wednesday 10th
BBC2 1900-2000
Interactive 1000-1600
Track Cycling (Last day)
Wheelchair Basketball - Men GB v Brazil
Athletics/Swimming Finals, Rowing
Table Tennis/Wheelchair Tennis
Thursday 11th
BBC2 1900-2000
Interactive 1000-1600
Athletics and Swimming Finals
Wheelchair Basketball - Men USA V Australia
Rowing Finals/W/c tennis/Equestrian
Table tennis/Powerlifting/Shooting
Friday 12th
BBC2 1900-2000
Interactive 1000-1600
Swimming and Athletics Finals
Wheelchair Rugby GB v NZL
Wheelchair Basketball Women's Q/F GB?
W/c tennis/Boccia (last day)/ Football
Road Cycling, Shooting
Saturday 13th
BBC
1300-1630
Shared with World Athletics Final
Athletics/Swimming (Best of Finals)
Wheelchair Baskeball - Men's Q/F GB?
Tennis, Sailing Final Day, Powerlifting
Wheelchair Rugby - GB v Germany
Interactive 1000-1230
Swimming/Athletics
Wheelchair
Rugby Live GB V Germany
Or
Wheelchair Basketball - GB in QF?
Road Cycling
Sunday 14th
BBC 2
1300-1630
Athletics/Swimming - Best Finals
Wheelchair Rugby GB v Australia
Tennis
Wheelchair Basketball Semi-Final
Road Cycling
Interactive 1000-1230
Swimming/Athletics
Wheelchair Basketball Semi-Finall
Wheelchair Tennis
Archery/Powerlifting/Fencing
Monday 15th
BBC2 1900-2000
Interactive 1000-1600
Swimming Finals (last night)
Athletics
W/C
Rugby S/F and Tennis Final
Wheelchair Basketball - Women's Final
Archery/Fencing/Powerlifting/Table Tennis
Tuesday 16th
BBC2 1900-2000
Interactive 1000-1600
Final day of track and field Athletics, Wheelchair
Basketball and Wheelchair Rugby medal matches
Round Up P/lifting/Fencing/Table Tennis
7 a side football
Wednesday 17th
BBC2 1250-1600
Closing Ceremony starts at 1300
BBC2 1900-2000
Highlights of Closing Ceremony, Marathon, Blind Football final, Fencing and review of Games