The company will provide round-the-clock coverage of the Paralympics in the Brazilian city, which take place from September 7 to 18.

The channel will be in operation throughout the Games and will also show a daily two-hour highlights programme, which has a provisional title of “Rio Paralympic Highlights”.

SKY PerfecTV!, which has around three million subscribers, is set to include an alternative look at the event during the highlights programme, with a unique coverage of a range of different competitions scheduled to form part of their broadcasting.

Exact details and timings are expected to be announced in due course.

They have joined Japanese public broadcaster NHK, in covering the Paralympic Games in the Asian nation.

NHK has vowed to provide extensive and comprehensive coverage of the Games.

SKY PerfecTV! have a long history in broadcasting Paralympic sport, beginning with the Japanese Wheelchair Basketball Championships in 2008.

They then went on to offer coverage of the Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games.

For the winter event in the Russian city, Sky PerfecTV! provided over 200 consecutive hours of programming, 60 of which was live broadcasting.

As well as the Paralympics, the Japanese broadcaster has also shown the Japan Para Athletics Championships, the 2014 Blind Football World Championships and the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships.

Organisers were given a boost last month when National television broadcaster France Télévisions announced they will show a live daily show from the Games on its France 4 and France 2 channels.

The deal came after the coverage in France at London 2012 was criticised, with little known regional station TV8 Mont Blanc, a station based in the Alps and available to only 70 per cent of the French population, the only channel which screened the event four years ago.