Coverage
- Australia - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) presented coverage of the Paralympic Games, on ABC1 and ABC2.
- Brazil - SporTV2 and Terra Networks (online)
- Canada - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) provided coverage on their television and radio networks as well as extensive online coverage at CBC Paralympics in English. TV coverage consisted of four digest shows. In French, Radio Canada (SRC), CBC's French language arm, provided coverage in the form of two digests on television, with news articles on the web.
- China, People's Republic of - Chinese Central Television (CCTV) provided coverage on CCTV-5 and CCTV-7.
- France - Eurosport
- Japan - NHK
- Norway - NRK
- Sweden - Sveriges Television
- Turkey - TRT
- United States of America - Universal Sports, an online subsidiary of NBC Universal, provided live streaming of selected Paralympic Games events (free registration required).
- United Kingdom - BBC provided extensive coverage on television, and online.
In France, following the Games, Philippe Juvin, national secretary of the governing Union for a Popular Movement, accused national public television network France Télévisions of having practiced "segregation" by providing live coverage of the Beijing Olympics but only ten minute daily summaries of events, outside prime time, for the Beijing Paralympics. France Télévisions replied that it would take Juvin to court for slander.
While the Games were not broadcast live in the United States, NBC broadcast a documentary featuring highlights and athlete profiles on November 9, 2008, followed by a week-long series of coverage shown by Universal Sports beginning the day after.
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