2018 Pan Pacs TV/Stream Broadcasting Schedule

The 2018 Pan Pacific Championships are coming up in just a few days, with pool swimming events scheduled* for August 9th-12th, 2018. NBCNBC 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

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Tim Parker
5 years ago

Horrible!!! Commentary! You couldn’t pay a swimmer to do play by play. Shame on you!

Paul Schwartz
Reply to  Tim Parker
5 years ago

The worst announcing ever. He had more mistakes in each race than the horrible NBC track announcers do in an entire meet!!

whoanellie
5 years ago

maybe some sports bar could stay open a bit later than a breakfast joint opening early, Flash mob at Panera Bread, “Bagels & Breaststrok’n “

Sandra McEvoy
5 years ago

Are the multi class swims being live streamed…

Admin
Reply to  Sandra McEvoy
5 years ago

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!

Jonathan F.
5 years ago

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/

kdswim
Reply to  Jonathan F.
5 years ago

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….

Jonathan F.
Reply to  kdswim
5 years ago

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

kdswim
Reply to  Jonathan F.
5 years ago

I better not get up at 4:30 am (3:30 Central) and find no live coverage…. LOL

Tm71
Reply to  Jonathan F.
5 years ago

That clearly says live starting at 130 am tomorrow night but my TV guide says something different

Superfan
Reply to  Jonathan F.
5 years ago

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?😩

shutout
5 years ago

How do you buy the Olympic Channel if your lame-oh cable provider doesn’t provide it?

Andrea
Reply to  shutout
5 years ago

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

taa
5 years ago

come on someone give us the hack to watch this live. VPN from what country???? Just asking for a friend

KDSwim
Reply to  taa
5 years ago

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….

taa
Reply to  KDSwim
5 years ago

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/

kdswim
Reply to  taa
5 years ago

Ha… No idea since all in Japanese on either link, but luckily we have another 48 hours to figure it out…

kdswim
Reply to  taa
5 years ago

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.

kdswim
5 years ago

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.

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Karl Ortegon studied sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, graduating in May of 2018. He began swimming on a club team in first grade and swam four years for Wesleyan.

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