- 2025 World Junior Swimming Championships
- August 19-24, 2025
- Otopeni, Romania
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
The World Junior Championships are around the corner, and World Aquatics has released the list of global broadcasts for the meet in Otopeni, Romania
Unlike the senior World Championships, the meet will not be streamed on Peacock in the United States, and there are limited ways to watch.
Americas
| Network | Countries/Territories |
| DirecTV (finals only) | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela |
Europe
| Network | Countries/Territories |
| MTVA | Hungary |
| RAI | Italy |
- Other European countries can watch the competition on the Eurovision Sport platform which is providing coverage for more than 50 countries and territories.
Asia
| Network | Countries/Territories |
| TV Asahi (finals only) | Japan |
| CMG/CCTV5 | China & Macau |
All other countries, including the United States, can stream the event on the World Aquatics Recast Channel.
- Recast Channel Here
The streaming service is not free. A seven-day pass is 590 credits, which will cost USD $8.26. The seven-day period begins at the time of purchase.
You can also purchase credits for individual sessions. Each prelims session will be 100 credits and each finals session is 150 credits. The credits are not available for purchase in amounts less than 200, which costs USD $2.80.
Session Start Times
| City | Time Zone | Prelims Start | Finals Start |
| Los Angeles | GMT-7 | 23:30 (day before) | 8:00 |
| New York | GMT-4 | 2:30 | 11:00 |
| London | GMT+1 | 7:30 | 16:00 |
| Otopeni (local time) | GMT+3 | 9:30 | 18:00 |
| Tokyo | GMT+9 | 15:30 | 0:00 (Midnight) |
| Sydney | GMT+10 | 16:30 | 1:00 (day after) |
Yet more proof the USA Swimming’s Board of Directors don’t give a damn about the sport or its athletes.
Where is USA Swimming leadership? What have they done to help facilitate broadcast in the States? I’m guessing crickets.
But! Maybe if they eliminated the B final maybe
More people wouid watch!
-signed a potentially very disgruntled NCAA parent
This is why we can’t be superfans. Ugh.
This is bush league. So much for expanding a sport that very few people seem to care about.
I love being sporadically European
Big traveler
Just ridiculous. These kids work hard and only get direct tv? lol. This sport is such a joke and treats the athletes and coaches so poorly.
Agree that these kids work incredibly hard, sacrifice much and it seems the pay off is minimal compared to many other sports.
Maybe blame the parents for supporting these amazing athletes in a goin nowhere sport?
With the athletic skill and commitment, most of the high level swimmers could be celebrities if only they had started at a young age in other sports like – Soccer, baseball, softball, football, basketball, tennis, golf, gymnastics, flag football, archery, squash, bowling or Texas Hold Em poker.
I agree 100%.
“Mommas dont let your sons grow up to be swimmers” (Insert Willie Nelson song) Mommas dont let sons grow up to be cowboys.
Put em in chess, gaming, cage fighting, squash, guitar playin, poker tournaments, billiards or jive dancin!
Let us all hope that Recast has improved from 2023. And also that they do not push the prices up hours before the meet starts like they did in 2023. It was dodgy as hell.