Paris 2024 has awarded France Télévisions the rights to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (August 28 to September 8, 2024) for France.
- All sports will be captured and broadcast live, for the first time in the history of the Paralympic Games, with free access to 300 hours of live
- Exceptional exposure will be provided 24 hours a day thanks to the complementarity of the Group’s two premium channels, France 2 and France 3
- An unprecedented promotion of Paralympic athletes and sports will be implemented before the Games and during the event
The group shares with Paris 2024 the ambition to make the Paralympic Games an unforgettable celebration of sport, and is delighted to offer unprecedented visibility to this event which will make it possible to reach a new milestone in the media coverage of Paralympic sports and athletes.
As part of this agreement, Paris 2024 grants France Télévisions the French exclusivity of the audiovisual and digital rights of the Paralympic Games, thus allowing the group to obtain the retransmission of all the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024. This acquisition completes the unique and free sports offer for all of France Télévisions and reinforces the status of the first French media as broadcaster of the Games.
A decisive agreement to promote the first Summer Paralympic Games organized in France
Paris 2024 has the ambition to make the Paralympic Games an exceptional sporting experience, with new competition sites, like the Invalides which will host Para archery, the Grand Palais for wheelchair fencing and Para taekwondo, or even the gardens of the Palace of Versailles for Para horse riding.
To ensure maximum coverage of the event, Paris 2024 had set very ambitious criteria in the selection of its national Paralympic Games broadcaster. France Télévisions was able to respond by capturing and broadcasting all the sports (a first in the history of the Paralympic Games), free access to 300 hours of live streaming and exceptional exposure 24 hours a day thanks to the complementarity of the two channels. premium of the Group, France 2 and France 3.
Through this agreement, Paris 2024 and France Télévisions wish to highlight the performances and careers of Paralympic athletes and contribute, through sport, to changing the way society views disability. Also, France Télévisions will bring para sports to life for the next two and a half years, by following the path of the French champions in the magazines Tout Le Sport and Stade 2 in particular, as well as on its digital offer.
Delphine Ernotte Cunci, President of France Télévisions:
« Obtaining the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games is a source of immense pride for France Télévisions. With the Olympic Games, we will thus make the whole of the greatest sporting event of the next few years accessible to all French people. In 2024, all of Olympism and Paralympism will therefore be present on public service channels, with the same exhibition ambition. I hope that the Paralympic Games and the 30 months that separate us from the event, will be an opportunity to shine and promote para sports like never before in France, at the service of the integration of all. »
Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024:
« In 2024, our country will organize the Paralympic Summer Games for the first time in its history. Paris 2024 aims to make this event an unforgettable celebration of sport, worthy of the determination and achievements of Paralympic athletes. As the official broadcaster of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in France, France Télévisions will take media coverage and popular enthusiasm around the event to a new level. With this major public service audiovisual group, we share the same desire to highlight the Paralympic athletes and in particular the young generation who will make France win at Paris 2024, to introduce the French public to their performances and their unique journeys, and to seize this historic opportunity to permanently change society’s view of disability. »
