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2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials Television Schedule
A viewer sent us the Olympic Trials tv schedule below. He was a bit disappointed that the Swimming Olympic Trials will be on LIVE in prime time every single night on NBC or USA network while a lot of the track trials are on later at night. We're not disappointed at all. Swimming may have better time slots than track and field, but some of that has to do when the events are taking place on the West Coast. Basically everything of importance at the Track Trials will be on LIVE tv. Sure some of these events are at 11pm on the east coast, but beggars can't be choosers. Maybe one day in the future, track will be important enough to time shift everything to primetime, but as is, track is going to be on LIVE every night with 4 nights of PrimeTime NBC coverage. The live prime time tv coverage on NBC seemed better than we remembered, but then looking at our archives we see that the tv coverage this year is basically the exact same as in 2004. We're also excited that NBC has invested in WCSN. Now NBC is going to try and promote the Olympic sports and market its Olympic brand year round instead of neglecting the Olympics and assuming everyone will watch them like it is still 1984. All times are Eastern; subject to change; check local listings
(It's hard to spread a track meet out over 10 days and still have action every day. Some days there is very little action). Swimming Trials TV Sport Airdate Time Network U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Sunday, June 29 8:00-9:00 pm ET NBC ---primetime U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Monday, June 30 8:00-9:00 pm ET USA ---primetime U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Tuesday, July 1 8:00-9:00 pm ET USA ---primetime U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Wednesday, July 2 8:00-9:00 pm ET USA ---primetime U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Thursday, July 3 8:00-9:00 pm ET USA ---primetime U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Friday, July 4 8:00-9:00 pm ET NBC ---primetime U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Saturday, July 5 8:00 -9:00 pm ET NBC ---primetime U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Swimming Sunday, July 6 8:00 -9:00 pm ET NBC ---primetime
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