This comment was buried in the black hole of word press. Suzanne, you’re too funny. Very Shakespearean 🙂

I agree. After the Olympics are over, I hope that the Paralympics are just as celebrated in the world.

Vancouver 2010 Paralympics Open to over 60 thousand people live. And, over 1.6 BILLION worldwide.
Not including all of Canada and with the CTV pulling the sneaking stuff they did to not airing it all without public demand and pressure.

Sponsors whom sponsor the Olympics also sponsor the Paralympics, I fully agree with you why are these people NOT demanding equality?

As an individual, myself and not some non profit, and or other styled organization I have worked out the rights, and agreement both the IOC and IPC to be able to use images, sounds, and logos to spread awareness. Cost to me nothing.

I produce a TV Network styled live web show where I have permission from content owners large and small to be able to use the content they made and own to spread awareness. All at no cost to me.

One of my viewers arranged for me to simulcast the Paralympics Live from my live show in 2012 as a person he knows paid for the rights out of his pocket $23 thousand dollars to air the paralympics on his local cable access channel in the USA. Cost for me to simulcast zero dollars.

I may not be the brightest bulb in the pack, but I am persistent in what I do.

This effort is unlike anything else on Earth that has been or may ever be… That aims to bring about something good for a world so in the dark about the single largest group on Earth.

Did you know if we round up the world population to 7 Billion right now. And we used the numbers from the World Bank, and others who follow world stats, we end up with about 10 to 11% of the total population reporting to be disabled. You see, I thought this was a little low from what I figured out in the USA alone. The percent of disabled was much higher than the global one reports. So I did a little more homework.

Turns out, that about 83% of those 7 Billion live in 3rd world nations. And, after asking many people whom travel to those parts to provide support and help… I asked them about how many people with disabilities do you imagine are not reported in those areas. The numbers I got back made my mind go numb. We are talking between 4.2 Billion people to 5.3 Billion people whom in the 3rd world have some form(s) of disability that will never be reported. They are treated like waste that you rather burn and bury.

If we take the low of the World Bank numbers 10% and add this now to the 3rd world number we end up with a group of people that numbers about four-billion-nine-hundred-million people that today alone have disabilities.

Every group on Earth has a person or persons with disabilities in it. Every group does, an the global population of 2 billion 1 hundred million keeps them in the dark for the most part. Eugenics in action.

You are so correct about the athletes being the elite of the sports they are in able or disabled… Not to mention in 1978 the USA passed a law to prevent this sort of thing from taking place. Also, why isn’t the IPC, and IOC doing more to demand the sponsors kick the broadcasters in the tail ends to air these fine athletes.

I have contacted all of the broadcasters in the US and got this answer: We don’t have enough sponsor interest, not enough viewers, and thus not enough money in to make it worth the investment.

Let’s break this down a little: The two single largest sporting events on Earth in sponsors, viewers, and money draw… No other events even come close.

FIFA over 4 thousand on air season hours well covered 25.1 Million viewers.
NASCAR as awesome as it is… Add it also.
American Football add these numbers two plus the super bowel numbers.

You would think the total of those would be mind numbly high… Nope.

Now realize the Paralympics in Vancouver five events… Not very long air time compared to any of the events mentioned and way less than the Olympics.

Draws 60 plus thousand in person, and over 1.6 billion people worldwide.

Every sponsor or at least 90% of the ones who sponsor the Olympics also on a much lower key sponsor the Paralympics.

One single ad campaign by any of those sponsors if done using BOTH the Olympics and Paralympics in them could alone cover the $23 thousand dollars to broadcast the Paralympics, and even have money left over to cover the reporter(s) that go to them. Or to really be cheap the broadcaster can buy footage from another broadcaster to use its own graphics on and set up a green screened room to make it look like they have a reporter on location.

It is not like the broadcasters are building the Olympic City, Village, and all of that stuff, and the fact that we use more digital signals now makes it less costly to send more info for less that years back.

What these broadcasters are doing is discrimination on a global scale. If any or all of the countries ever realized this they could open a class action so big that it would rock the broadcasting world like nothing ever seen.

My little show is aiming to show these so called multi-billion dollar companies how it should be done in the first place.

Nothing my effort does generates any form of income or other rewards for me on or off line.

It’s an effort to show just what ABILITIES we all have as human beings. And, so I may learn skills to go into the broadcast industry doing this maybe on TV where even more people can access information like this. 🙂

Great article,
Jon
AbiliTV – Founder

See this link. for more info.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=11882.html