As Boing-Boing reports, quoting the BBC’s Stuart Hughes:
The Paralympics will boast:4000 athletes. 140 countries represented.525 gold medals at stake. 19 sports. There will be no American TV coverage of the Paralympics. Let me repeat that. There will be NO AMERICAN TV COVERAGE OF THE PARALYMPICS. Not one hour of live coverage. Not one commentator. Not one Olympian on the commentary team. Nothing. This at the same time that a record number of journalists are preparing to cover the Paralympics.”
This is really shameful. I just emailed my opinion to the NBC Olympics feedback address. I recommend you do the same.