Channel 4 to show 2012 Paralympics

Broadcaster pledges that Paralympics will ‘take over Channel 4 for their duration’ after snapping up rights
Channel 4 has won the rights to broadcast the 2012 Paralympics games.
Although the BBC has the rights for the 2012 Olympics, the Paralympic broadcast rights were put out to tender.
Channel 4 announced today that it had been awarded the rights [...]

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