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The Triple Crown's middle jewel was won by Kentucky Derby runner-up Journalism, who went off as the even-money favorite and ...
NBC News is ramping up its sports coverage, something that in the past has not been the province of national TV news divisions ...
NBC has done five hours of coverage on the main network on Derby Day since 2018. Sam Flood, the executive producer and president of NBC Sports Production, said the true evolution behind adding more ...
Sovereignty is not running out of that starting gate in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, two weeks after winning the ...
The 151st Kentucky Derby delivered its largest audience for NBC since 1989 with an average of 17.7 million viewers.
With 17.7 million viewers, the 151st Kentucky Derby delivered the race’s largest audience since 1989—all tuning in to watch ...
With 17.7 million viewers (6:33-7:24 p.m. ET), the 2025 Kentucky Derby will rank as NBC's most-watched Saturday program since the NFL Wild Card Playoffs in January 2024 (excluding Paris Olympics).
all day. The attendance was 147,406. NBC Sports Michael Banahan received the Kentucky Derby Trophy and spoke about Godolphin achieving the Derby Double. Trainer Bill Mott went deeper into his ...
Poor Mike Tirico had to be scratched Saturday from the NBC Sports telecast of the 151st Kentucky Derby. The veteran broadcaster explained subsequently that he had been sidelined by “a significant ...
NBC believes that it finally cracked the code ... for everything else the entertainment companies do, and the Kentucky Derby is perhaps a textbook example.
MODERATOR: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to today’s call. This Saturday marks NBC Sports’ milestone 25th presentation of the Kentucky Derby. When we began in 2001, we had a 90-minute show. Now we ...
NBC's Kentucky Derby coverage was missing a key figure when lead broadcaster Mike Tirico had to step off set Saturday. Tirico address his absence in a social media post around Saturday evening ...