Baeza who finished second in the Santa Anita Derby and who was in Churchill Downs hoping for a late scratch has been added to the field. Baeza will start from the outside in post position 20 as all ...

NBC Sports will provide coverage of 15 races starting Friday and taking you all the way up to the Derby. Live coverage time: Begins at 2:30 p.m. ET ...

Here we go again! America’s greatest handicapping puzzle, otherwise known as the Kentucky Derby, will take place on Saturday. As if it wasn’t enough of a challenge to pick winners in an average field, ...

NBC News is ramping up its sports coverage, something that in the past has not been the province of national TV news divisions ...

The 151st Kentucky Derby delivered its largest audience for NBC since 1989 with an average of 17.7 million viewers.

The Triple Crown's middle jewel was won by Kentucky Derby runner-up Journalism, who went off as the even-money favorite and ...

With 17.7 million viewers, the 151st Kentucky Derby delivered the race’s largest audience since 1989—all tuning in to watch Sovereignty’s thrilling victory, per NBC Sports.

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 ...

The 151st Kentucky Derby kicks off Saturday, May 3, starting at 12 p.m. ET. This year, the NBC family kicks off its coverage with the Kentucky Oaks -- the annual Derby precursor which has been ...

On Saturday, the Kentucky Derby will kick off Triple Crown season as the race prepares for its 151st running. Once again, NBC will be on the call at Churchill Downs, as has been the case for the ...

The 2025 Kentucky Derby, won by Sovereignty, drew an average of 17.7 million viewers across NBC and Peacock. This viewership is the highest for the Kentucky Derby since 1989 and a record for NBC ...

NBC believes that it finally cracked the code ... for everything else the entertainment companies do, and the Kentucky Derby is perhaps a textbook example.