How and When to Watch/Stream the 2024 World Championships

by Laura Rosado 38

February 09th, 2024 International, News

2024 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships kicks off this weekend in Doha. Doha is in Arabian Standard Time (GMT+3) with prelims starting at 9:30am and finals starting at 7pm local time.

Once again, it appears BBC will not have televised coverage of the event, following failed negotiations for the 2023 Championships. The United Kingdom does not appear on World Aquatics’ “Where to Watch – Europe” page, though it does note that “all events not covered by the national right holders broadcasters will be available on Eurovision Sport.”

Prelims/Finals Start Times

City

Prelims Start Time

Finals Start Time

Doha, Qatar 9:30 AM 7:00 PM
Omaha, NE 12:30 AM 10:00 AM
New York City 1:30 AM 11:00 AM
Austin, TX 12:30 AM 10:00 AM
Los Angeles, CA 10:30 AM 8:00 AM
Honolulu, HI 8:30 PM 6:00 AM
Brisbane, AUS 4:30 PM 2:00 AM
Río de Janeiro, BRA 3:30 AM 1:00 PM
Tokyo, JPN 3:30 PM 1:00 AM
Toronto, CAN 1:30 AM 11:00 AM
Montreal, CAN 1:30 AM 11:00 AM
Beijing, China 2:30 PM 12:00 AM
Cape Town, South Africa 8:30 AM 6:00 PM
Naples, ITA 7:30 AM 5:00 PM
Paris, FRA 7:30 AM 5:00 PM
London, ENG 6:30 AM 4:00 PM
Berlin, GER 7:30 AM 5:00 PM

How to Watch 2024 Worlds

Check out the tables below to see where you can catch the action.

Africa

COUNTRY COVERAGE
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tunisia Al Kass
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, São Tomé e Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Socotra, Somalia (including Somaliland), Sudan, South Sudan, St. Helena & Ascension, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe SuperSport

The Americas

COUNTRY COVERAGE
USA, Guam, Puerto Rico; U.S. Virgin Islands NBC Sports/Peacock
Canada CBC
Brazil Globo/SporTV
Costa Rica, El Savador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic Claro Sports
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela DirecTV 

Asia

COUNTRY COVERAGE
Japan TV Asahi 
China & Macau China Media Group (CCTV5) 
Malaysia & Brunei Astro 
South Korea CJ Media
Singapore Singtel
Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates Al Kass

Europe

COUNTRY COVERAGE
Austria ORF
Bosnia & Herzegovina BHRT
Bulgaria BNT 
Croatia HRT
Cyprus CBC
Finland YLE 
France (including overseas territories: French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Reunion, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, St Pierre & Miquelon, French Southern & Antarctic Lands, Wallis & Futuna)  FT
Germany ZDF, ARD
Greece  ERT
Hungary MTVA
Iceland RUV
Israel Sports Channel 
Italy RAI Sport
Lithuania LT 
North Macedonia RTV
Netherlands (including Aruba, Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Saint Martin, Saint Eustatius) NOS
North Macedonia RTV
Portugal  RTP
Romania  TVR
Serbia RTS
Slovenia  TVS
Slovakia  RTVS
Sweden SVT
Switzerland  SSR
Spain RTVE
Turkey TRT

Oceania

COUNTRY COVERAGE
Australia  Nine Network

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Johny Lewington
7 months ago

Why is Australia not showing the swimming world championships. ?

Troyy
Reply to  Johny Lewington
7 months ago

They are. Channel 9 has the rights so you can watch on 9now.com.au.

Pam
Reply to  Troyy
7 months ago

cutting out all the time

Tomek
7 months ago

I don’t see swimming on NBC Sports, WTF?

Happy Slappy
Reply to  Tomek
7 months ago

Because NBC app is gawd awful….even during the Olympics when swimming is a premier sport

I miss the ISL
7 months ago

NordVPN youre about to become suddenly very important in my life

Jonny
7 months ago

London ??? Where do we watch from london?

Troyy
Reply to  Jonny
7 months ago

Eurovision Sport or use a VPN to watch 9now (Australia) or CBC (Canada).

PBJSwimming
7 months ago

Fire up your VPNs!

Slow Swimmer X
Reply to  PBJSwimming
7 months ago

Point you VPN to Canada, and go to CBC.ca

Troyy
Reply to  Slow Swimmer X
7 months ago

Does CBC normally provide a full replay for every session?

ScovaNotiaSwimmer
Reply to  Troyy
7 months ago

Usually, yes. Although it seems to take several hours after the event ends to pop up sometimes.

MIKE IN DALLAS
7 months ago

Doesn’t FINA/World Aquatics have its own broadcast version of pay per view as well as NBC/Peacock?

Admin
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
7 months ago

They had one, but the service shut down. It was replaced by a 3rd party service that served the same function, but that failed too. Haven’t seen announcement of a replacement yet.

https://swimswam.com/world-aquatics-streaming-partner-recast-falls-into-financial-administration/

CraigH
7 months ago

8:00 AM Start Time for Finals. There goes my work productivity this week…

Troyy
7 months ago

2am is such a horrible start time. 😭 They should move the finals to morning Tokyo style.

Emily Se-Bom Lee
Reply to  Troyy
7 months ago

don’t mind the start time, if it means we get bobby hurley and mike mccann on commentary instead of the channel 9 circus

Troyy
Reply to  Emily Se-Bom Lee
7 months ago

I watched on recast last year but this year I can’t justify the cost with such a depleted field.

Joel
Reply to  Troyy
7 months ago

Just record on fetch – channel 9 at 2am. I’ll watch in fast forward as soon as I wake up before looking at results.

Joel
Reply to  Joel
7 months ago

And 9 gem for heats.

Mako
Reply to  Troyy
7 months ago

I record them on Fetch and watch later. I suspect it will come in handy during the Olympics too.

Joel
Reply to  Troyy
7 months ago

If they can do it for the USA, why not for us lol?

Emily Se-Bom Lee
Reply to  Joel
7 months ago

ch9’s bribe isn’t big enough

Nono
Reply to  Troyy
7 months ago

Which means 3am for us here in Sydney 😭

Southerly Buster
Reply to  Troyy
7 months ago

For those of us in Sydney and Melbourne with daylight saving the finals start at 3.00 am and a race that I particularly want to see live, the W4x100 Free (to see if AUS can continue the winning streak) starts at 4.21 am.

Looks like it’s going to be a bleary eyed Monday for me.