Former Noah Media Group and Sunset+Vine executive and senior producer Pete Thomas will join UK-based Whisper as its new head of sport next week, bolstering the production company’s sports team. Thomas brings with him more than 15 years of sports broadcasting experience, including covering Premier League football, women’s football, the UEFA Champions League, NFL and […] More
Production company, Whisper, is gearing up to bring Channel 4’s Paralympic 2020 coverage to British viewers from 24 August, with the Opening Ceremony that is taking place in Tokyo. With over 300 hours of TV to produce for the broadcaster’s linear offering over the Channel 4 and More4 channels, and a brand new microsite that […] More
Channel 4, the UK rights holder for the Paralympics, has laid out its plans for extensive coverage this summer that will include over 300 hours of round the clock live Paralympics content from studios in Tokyo, Leeds and London. It has also announced a new Paralympics Microsite that will feature 16 live streams and over […] More
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has awarded the European media rights to the Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024 Paralympic Games to sports media agency Infront. The agreement covers 51 European territories excluding the UK for 2022 and the UK and France for 2024 and includes a content creation element that will see Infront Productions work […] More
Channel 4’s coverage of the 2012 London Paralympics was for many the first time para sports were explained in a way that meant the viewer could really engage with the athletes and their achievements. The reason for this was Lexi, a groundbreaking info-graphics system that gave viewers a series of colour-coded human-shaped icons on the […] More
One of the major things to emerge from the SportTech UK conference was the sheer effort that the UK’s Channel 4 is putting into its coverage of the Paralympic games. When it won the broadcast and online rights, it said at the time it “plans to show more coverage than ever before and to market […] More
