KBS “Tokyo Paralympic Games broadcast, organized as the largest ever Summer Olympics”

KBS announced on the 20th that it has organized the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games broadcast in the largest scale ever in the history of the Summer Paralympic Games. The Paralympic Games will start on the 24th and run until the 5th of next month.

KBS allocated 1560 minutes including the live broadcast of the opening ceremony at 8 pm on the 24th for this Paralympic Games, and explained that it is the only domestic broadcaster to send a broadcast production team to Tokyo. The game commentary will be provided by a commentator specialized in sports for the disabled.

KBS noon newsin At KBS, anchor Choi Kuk-hwa, selected as the anchor for the 6th disabled person, will deliver the Paralympic news. main news Paralympic related news is also organized one or two a day. In addition, KBS announced that it will be broadcasting on mobile using its mobile internet streaming service, ‘My K’.

KBS announcer Lee Jae-hoo also said, “The 32nd Tokyo Non-Paralympic Games, all the broadcasts of Korean broadcasting KBS will end here” during the broadcast of the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on the 8th. It was evaluated as a comment that raised awareness about the Paralympic Games by newly defining the Summer Olympics as an ‘Olympic for non-disabled people’. The three terrestrial broadcasters have been criticized for relatively neglecting the Paralympic Games. KBS’s expanded programming policy is the result of accommodating such criticisms.

MBC and SBS will also broadcast the opening ceremony live on the 24th. SBS announced that it will broadcast match highlights on Saturday late at night and will provide sign language interpretation for all broadcasts. An MBC official said that the game will be broadcast during the afternoon on weekdays and late at night on weekends, and all broadcasts will be translated into sign language.

The Paralympic Games will be held in 22 sports and 539 sub-sports. In Korea, 150 athletes will participate in 14 sports, including table tennis, badminton, archery, athletics, boccia, swimming, taekwondo, and wheelchair basketball.