The 2018 Pan Pacific Championships are coming up in just a few days, with pool swimming events scheduled* for August 9th-12th, 2018. NBC, NBC Sports, the Olympic Channel, and USA Swimming will serve as the broadcasting platforms for the meet. Viewers can tune in to the Olympic Channel at 5:30am ET on the 9th, 6am ET on the 10th and 11th, and 4am ET on the 12th for a delayed broadcast of each respective finals session. Olympic Channel will show a re-air of each finals session late afternoon/evening on the same day. There are also streams available for each session on either NBCsports.com or usaswimming.org, depending on the day.
*pending no interference from Typhoon Shanshan
Below is the streaming and TV broadcasting schedule for the 2018 Pan Pac Championships. Prelims begin 10am Tokyo time every day, while finals times vary day-to-day. More information and a full time zone chart for prelims and finals sessions can be seen here.
U.S. TV/Stream Broadcasting Schedule
| Date | Network | Time (ET) | Event | Live or Delay | Webcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 9 | Olympic Channel | 5:30 a.m. ET | Day 1 Finals | Delay | nbcsports.com |
| August 9 | N/A | 1 p.m. ET | Deck Pass Live | Live | usaswimming.org |
| August 9 | Olympic Channel | 5:30 p.m. ET | Day 1 Finals | Re-air | nbcsports.com |
| August 10 | Olympic Channel | 6 a.m. ET | Day 2 Finals | Delay | nbcsports.com |
| August 10 | N/A | 1 p.m. ET | Deck Pass Live | Live | usaswimming.org |
| August 10 | Olympic Channel | 6 p.m. ET | Day 2 Finals | Re-air | nbcsports.com |
| August 11 | Olympic Channel | 6 a.m. ET | Day 3 Finals | Delay | nbcsports.com |
| August 11 | N/A | 1 p.m. ET | Deck Pass Live | Live | usaswimming.org |
| August 11 | NBC | 4 p.m. ET | Finals | Taped | nbcsports.com |
| August 11 | Olympic Channel | 8 p.m. ET | Day 3 Finals | Re-air | nbcsports.com |
| August 12 | Olympic Channel | 5 a.m. ET | Day 4 Finals | Delay | nbcsports.com |
| August 12 | N/A | 1 p.m. | Deck Pass Live | Live | usaswimming.org |
| August 12 | NBC | 4 p.m. ET | Finals | Taped | nbcsports.com |
| August 12 | Olympic Channel | 8 p.m. ET | Day 4 Finals | Re-air | nbcsports.com |
Horrible!!! Commentary! You couldn’t pay a swimmer to do play by play. Shame on you!
The worst announcing ever. He had more mistakes in each race than the horrible NBC track announcers do in an entire meet!!
maybe some sports bar could stay open a bit later than a breakfast joint opening early, Flash mob at Panera Bread, “Bagels & Breaststrok’n “
Are the multi class swims being live streamed…
Sandra – the Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships are a whole separate meet being raced in Australia, and yes they will be streamed. We’ll have an article with details soon!
from the NBC sports website
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2018/08/06/pan-pacific-swimming-championships-tv-streaming-schedule/
This is incorrect. Olympic Channel will air all finals sessions live in the United States.
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2018/08/06/pan-pacific-swimming-championships-tv-streaming-schedule/amp/
Well it was not incorrect at the time (hours ago). The link you post has different times moved up. All links on USASwimming and Olympics channel showed 5:30am Eastern an hour later than live a few hours ago.
RANT: This whole deal with getting streams/TV is a fiasco and only dedicated fans even bother to figure it out (and watch at 4am). So just stream it and forget this Olympic channel crap that no one would really watch if there was streaming.
Extra RANT:
Just have a stream for USA Swimming members (swimmers, coaches, officials, volunteers) and a new viewing category of pay per year for access to all USA events that are streamed. OK fine Olympics is not included….
Olympic Channel broadcast schedule also confirms that all finals sessions will air live (not tape delayed by 1 hour).
https://www.teamusa.org/olympic-channel-broadcast-schedule
I better not get up at 4:30 am (3:30 Central) and find no live coverage…. LOL
That clearly says live starting at 130 am tomorrow night but my TV guide says something different
The article says streaming too but that must be inaccurate. Also if my cable provider doesn’t carry olympic channel, I am screwed and no one can watch prelims live?😩
How do you buy the Olympic Channel if your lame-oh cable provider doesn’t provide it?
I have the app on my phone. You just need a tv provider, username and password. I use my friend’s direct tv info to watch
come on someone give us the hack to watch this live. VPN from what country???? Just asking for a friend
If you know how to use a VPN, Canada has live coverage of finals (won’t work in US) http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/broadcast
Australia’s main swimming site says they will stream live. Not clear about country limits but my guess is yes since US is supposed to only watch it on Olympic channel….
found japan no idea of blockage. Looks like no prelims anywhere i looked:
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/panpaci2018/
edit that link doesnt connect to the broadcast so its pretty worthless but here is a twitter link that looks promising:
https://twitter.com/swim5ch
This looks promising, i see the words “live broadcast preliminary rounds”
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/ch/contents/sports/0306/
Ha… No idea since all in Japanese on either link, but luckily we have another 48 hours to figure it out…
SO… TV Asahi will carry the prelims LIVE. But it appears on ch2. I’ve found live streaming of ch1 in a couple of places, but nothing for ch2 except for the subscription service https://fujitv.live/subscriptions. It does have a 1day free, but I’ve not clicked thru. I can’t find the link now that said they have TV Asahi ch2, but I did get to them from that a link saying they have ch2.
I’ve not actually found a “live” stream of the finals either. The Olympic channel seems delayed 1 or 2 hours. In the US can’t get Canada’s feed which is blocked here. I don’t know about Australia’s feed. I would think it would be live as closer to same timezone, but it might be blocked in the US.