2018 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 11-16, 2018
- Hangzhou, China
- Event Schedule
- Start Lists
The 2018 FINA Short Course World Championships will be live-streamed, televised live, and aired on tape-delay in the United States for each of its 6 days on NBC Sports Network, the Olympic Channel, and NBCSports.com.
While finals for the first 3 days will be aired live on the Olympic Channel, and later tape-delayed on the NBC Sports Network, the last 3 days will only be available in the US on tape-delay on television.
UPDATE: NBC has updated SwimSwam that all 12 sessions of the meet (prelims and finals) will be available in the US via live-stream.
While most of the world will be able to watch all sessions live via FINATV.Live, the swimming will be geoblocked in the USA, Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Brazil, South Africa, Malaysia, Brunei, and China, where other rights-holders have exclusive access.
Live Stream Links:
- Finals for the first 3 days can be viewed live at this link.
- All 6 prelims sessions, and finals for the last 3 days, can be viewed live at this link.
Full USA Television Schedule, 2018 FINA Short Course World Championships
| Date | Network | Time (ET) | Event | Live or Delay | Webcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 11 | Olympic Channel | 6 a.m. – 8 a.m ET | Day 1 Finals | Live | nbcsports.com |
| December 11 | NBC Sports Network | 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. ET | Day 1 Finals | Taped | nbcsports.com |
| December 12 | Olympic Channel | 6 a.m. – 8 a.m. ET | Day 2 Finals | Live | nbcsports.com |
| December 12 | NBC Sports Network | 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET | Day 2 Finals | Taped | nbcsports.com |
| December 13 | Olympic Channel | 6 a.m. – 8 a.m. ET | Day 3 Finals | Live | nbcsports.com |
| December 13 | NBC Sports Network | 12 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET | Day 3 Finals | Taped | nbcsports.com |
| December 14 | Olympic Channel | 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET | Day 4 Finals | Same Day Delay | nbcsports.com |
| December 14 | NBC Sports Network | 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET | Day 4 Finals | Taped | nbcsports.com |
| December 15 | Olympic Channel | 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. ET | Day 5 Finals | Same Day Delay | nbcsports.com |
| December 15 | NBC Sports Network | 9 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET | Day 5 Finals | Taped | nbcsports.com |
| December 16 | Olympic Channel | 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET | Day 6 Finals | Same Day Delay | nbcsports.com |
| December 16 | NBC Sports Network | 11 p.m. – 1 a.m. ET | Day 6 Finals | Taped | nbcsports.com |
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Fina GEOBLOCKING the US from watching. However corrupted they may be I never imagined them literally making it impossible for people to WATCH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
You never imagined having difficulty watching swimming live?
LOL
Same problem with me. You can just get a free trial, and download a VPN to your browser to make it look like you’re in Canada or something. Then unsubscribe for the pass when you’re done, and repeat with a different email
This really sucks. Sometimes it’s hard to be a swimming fan. Certainly can’t help the popularity in the USA if it’s impossible to watch live. Is it really too much to ask to air it live? What else is NBC airing in the middle of the night / early morning? They can just rerun it later during primetime if they are worried about ratings.
At any rate, guess I’ll be once again looking around for shady illegal sites to watch my favorite sport…….
Great strategy for how to increase the sport’s popularity and grow revenues for the athletes – – Let’s make sure that no one can watch the event!
You underestimate my vpns power braden
what website do you watch from?
Thats insane. Down here in South Africa we have all the sessions including Semi’s and finals live on the tellie..
goon on you guys
[insert angry face here]
If you really want to watch when you want, suggest getting a VPN. Have used one for almost 2 years with great success & even (ahem!) no Rowdy Gaines.
Is the geoblocking of US and territories a FINA decision or some NBC black magic? If FINA, is that decided before or after the lawsuit filed? Just wonder why geoblocking US.
The list of geoblocks is posted by FINA, but it’s driven by the licensing agreement with NBC. If NBC is going to pay for the rights, they want people to watch the meet on NBC. It has nothing to do with the lawsuit – international athletes will be included in the class action status if it is granted, and the organizers of the ISL and Energy for Swim aren’t Americans, so there’s no reason for FINA to pick on Americans this way.
That would also be counter to what FINA’s gameplan seems to be. They aren’t taking the tact of ‘passively-aggressively punishing everyone who is affiliated with ISL.” They’re trying to demonstrate why FINA is more important than the ISL,… Read more »
Thanks for the info and explanation. So in a sense, US swimmers and fans has 2 hurdles for the sport to thrive – FINA control the meets (and money) and NBC (control of media in US).