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Airdate: Australian Swimming Championships

TEN has the 2009 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships, which incorporates the selection trials for the FINA World Championships.

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ausswimTEN continues to add sports events to its programming in the lead up to the launch of ONE HD on March 26th.

This month it has the 2009 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships, which incorporates the selection trials for the FINA World Championships.

They are being held from March 17 – 22 at the Aquatic Centre, Sydney Olympic Park.

TEN’s coverage begins at 11pm Tuesday March 17 and screen nightly for 1 hour (11.50pm Fri 20th).

As a result, TEN Late News will be a 30min edition incorporating Sports Tonight. The Late Show with David Letterman will begin at midnight most nights.

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  1. C’mon guys. Put your hand in your pocket and get an HD set-top box. Get with the program and support those who support our sport. Nine gave us up without as much as a whimper. As for Rabs – well, Richie had to go sooner or later too…

  2. i am i swimmer at this meet, and this is just stupid. what about the people who want to watch it but it is to late. and why only show 1 hr when there is much more to show than that. if it’s live shouldnt it go straight onto tv and not be edited and you guys should be ashamed that the multi disability are excited to be on tv and yet they dont get shown. Show some support.

  3. I cant believe that such an important event in the Australian Swimming Calendar did not go to air at the actual time the events were being conducted. Channel 9 to their credit always made the telecast available in real time. Shame on you Channel 10.

  4. why does channel 10 bother taking up the swimming when they can’t show some of it live like channel 9 did.thanks for wrecking the coverage of swimming channel 10

  7. channel 9 would at lest show it live on it sd channel. its typical of channel 10. not showing sports live. i supose numb nuts quatermaine will be commentating on this to make things worst. by the looks of it. reality tv shit comes first to them. 9 did a better job and 10 well they are terrible at everything

  8. @ Earthquake, yes the Australian Championships is the tournament you are thinking of. For decades it has doubled as the qualifying event for the Olympic and Commonwealth Games (even years) and the World Championships (odd years) and it is more often than not referred to as the “Olympic trails”, “Commonwealth trails” or “World Championships trails”. The winner of each event is dubbed as the “Australian champion”.

    The national governing body was founded in 1909 as Amateur Swimming Union of Australia. They changed their name in 1985 to Australian Swimming and in October 2004 they became Swimming Australia.

  9. I was bitterly dissapointed when Nine lost the rights to the swimming. Ray Warren did a spectaular job calling the races with Nicole Liverstone and Duncan Armstrong alongside. Add to that the gorgous Giaan Rooney doing the post race interviews and the veteran Ken Sutcliffe heading the telecast, I just know that Ten’s coverage will never meet the high standard that was set by Nine.

    Also, why the hell isn’t this being shown live on Ten? It’s the Australian Championships for God’s sake!!

    Nine may have gone downhill in every other department but their coverage of sports still remain one of the best in the world.

  10. so it will be shown live on 10HD, oh well, I guess country folk miss out again, Southern Cross Ten is lucky to know what SD is let alone HD, all we get is their pretty looping pictures yawn.

  13. is it on both regular 10 and 10HD? ONE isn’t really the sport network, 10 is too because with heaps of the sports they are picking up they are showing finals and stuff on the main channel as well, instead of meaning less sport on the main channel it is going to be more, might have to remove all 10 LCN’s from my tv.

  15. Didn’t these used to be shown live at night on Channel Nine?

    Or am I thinking of a different swimming tournament?

    If so, it seems pretty stupid that Swimming Australia (if that’s the name of the organisation) would move from a high profile spot during prime time on the number 2 network to a late night timeslot on the number 3 network?

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