The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Paralympics will air on USA Network and stream on Peacock and NBC Olympics platforms on Wednesday, Aug. 28. An encore presentation will air on NBC in primetime on Friday, Aug. 31 at 9:00 p.m. ET. 

• Date: August 28
• Venue: Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Elysées
• TV channels: USA (Aug. 28), NBC (Aug. 31)
• Streaming: Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, NBC app, NBC Sports app 

Coverage of the 2024 Paris Paralympics will kick off at 1 p.m. ET on USA Network with a preview show. The Opening Ceremony will air live at 2 p.m. ET on USA Network. 

The complete Opening and Closing Ceremonies schedule, including TV listings, is also available on the NBC Olympics schedule page.

All live streams are also available to watch on mobile, tablet and connected TV devices via the Peacock, NBC and NBC Sports apps.

*The primetime encore of the Opening Ceremony on August 30, will air at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 8pm MT and 9pm PT. 

Live coverage of the Opening Ceremony will be shown on USA Network. On Friday, tape-delayed coverage of the Opening Ceremony will be shown on NBC.

The full TV listings for the Opening Ceremony can be found on the NBCOlympics.com schedule page by clicking the toggle at the top to “TV Only.”  

For the first time in Paralympic history, the Opening Ceremony will take place outside of a stadium. The parade of nations will feature many of Paris’s iconic landmarks, including the Champs-Elysees.

The athletes’ parade is slated to start at the bottom of the Champs-Elysees and pass several iconic Parisian landmarks as athletes make their way to the Place de la Concorde. The Place de la Concorde is the largest square in Paris and a symbol of France’s philosophical, cultural and literary values. 

French theater actor and director Thomas Jolly will oversee the Opening Ceremony as artistic director. He also directed the Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies.