Channel 4 "made a ground-breaking commitment to diversity by unveiling the largest ever team of disabled presenters for its coverage of the 2016 Rio Paralympics," according to Adam Sherwin of INEWS. Almost two-thirds of the on-screen talent working on Channel 4’s Paralympics coverage "will be disabled, including all four daytime presenters." There "will also be 26 disabled production staff helping produce the coverage." The Paralympics team "will be led by Clare Balding and The Last Leg’s Adam Hills." The daytime coverage, which will run from 1pm to 7pm, "will be anchored by daytime presenters including the Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte, broadcaster Sophie Morgan and former marine commando JJ Chalmers." They "will appear alongside" former Paralympic wheelchair basketball medalist Ade Adepitan and former Royal Marine Arthur Williams, "who presented coverage during the London 2012 Paralympics." The commitment to on-screen diversity "is matched off-screen via the Rio Production Training Scheme." More than 15% of the production team at Sunset+Vine, the company producing the coverage, "are disabled." Channel 4 "will have 20 disabled people working on content in Brazil who joined its Rio Production Trainee Scheme" (INEWS, 7/14).
