2012 Olympic Swimming and Diving TV Schedule

The television schedule for the 2012 Olympic swimming competition, as well as the diving competition.

Swimming is certainly one of the highest profile events in the Olympics, and that is reflected in the television schedule. Every single swimming event will air on the NBC broadcast network, and swimming will be part of the network’s primetime coverage for the first eight nights of the games.

Of course, this is a bit of a double-edged sword for fans. While events on cable will typically air live in all time zones, only three swimming telecasts on NBC are currently scheduled to air live — qualifying on Saturday, July 28 (5-6:00 AM), additional qualifying heats on Friday, August 3 (2-2:30 PM) and the women’s marathon on Thursday, August 9 (11:45 AM-12 PM). For viewers in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, even that pittance of live coverage would still air on tape delay.

2012 Olympic Swimming TV Schedule
** Telecasts on cable will typically at the same ‘time’ nationwide (e.g., an event at 12:30 PM ET will air at 11:30 AM CT, 10:30 AM MT, and 9:30 AM PT). Telecasts on the NBC broadcast network, however, will air on a delay in the Mountain and Pacific time zones. An event at 12:30 PM ET would air at 11:30 AM CT, 11:30 AM MT, and 12:30 PM PT.

2012 Olympic Diving TV Schedule