No media coverage in US even though NBC own the rights. Piece here from Guardian blog

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This from nexusmn BTL:

Hello all.

As I?ve mentioned before, in the USA there has been a total blackout of any Paralympics-oriented attention. The best way for interested North Americans to watch the actual sports and events is on YouTube.

As I?m sure you know, mainstream US television is ruled by ABC, NBC, and CBS. NBC have the exclusive license for both the Olympics and the Paralympics. During the Olympics there was saturation coverage on four NBC channels.

As the licensee, they (it?) have steadfastly, and disgracefully, ignored the events in London, refusing to show even minimal interest on their regular evening news programmes. In the past few days they?ve been getting a lot of criticism for this lack of perception, and have begun showing an hour of Paralympic events each evening. They have a one-time, daily Special Report on one of their cable-TV Sports networks. That?s for today. Tomorrow we?re being treated to Rocky 5 instead. (It?s true!) And that is possibly the US televisual Paralympics for 2012.

Yesterday?s focused on swimming, visually-impaired Men?s 100 meters and long jump, the Men?s 1500 meter, with a long section of the US getting to the semi-finals of the Women?s Wheelchair basketball game v. Canada,. There was no Cameron, and none of that awful booing, either. Oh no.

There?s a lot of competition in the news, but the Paralympics aren?t going away.

So, please stop pissing and moaning about missed coverage. Thank you.

Posted By: col canary, Sep 6, 22:13:04