I have to agree with the coverage and I think it was unfortunate to have three? singers so close together although they all had lovely voices. I felt it was a bit drawn out. but the subject matter was well done.

Trouble is we have all been spoiled by the BBC coverage which will, in my opinion, never be surpassed.

Let's hope someone on Ch.4 has the brains not to interrupt the 100 metres with an ad.

We are going there in the evening of Fri. 7th when there are several finals on so should be ad free!!

"The ceremony must have bored the Queen stiff"

As also with the main Olympics. The athletes parade has become so cumbersome to make an entrance due to the much increased numbers over the decades that they would be as well to start having them enter by two or even three entrances to get this down to 30 minutes. It's incredibly boring to watch the parade in full!

Regarding the commentators - if you were watching the C4 coverage it was Krishnan Guru-Murthy from C4 News and a Canadian former paralympic athlete who's name escapes me, with the usually excellent Claire Balding starting her C4 career pestering athletes.

I know C4 is a commercial channel, but surely they could have had a few less ad breaks. Another reason to be grateful that Aunty Beeb has the full Olympic coverage for the foreseeable future...

One thing I did notice was that when the first opera singer was warbling they had someone signing, but the camera kept drifting away, so not really much point having the signer there, as no one from the audience would be able to see them...

The Paralympics TV coverage is separate to the main games, the broadcast licences were sold directly by Locog. No idea who would be providing the feed to the broadcasters