Kentucky
TV Ratings Are Out For The 2022 Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – MAY 07: Jockey Sonny Leon reacts as Wealthy Strike wins the 148th working of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Might 07, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photograph by Ezra Shaw/Getty Photos)
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The TV scores for the Kentucky Derby have formally been launched.
The scores are up 8% in comparison with final 12 months’s race as NBC averaged 16 million viewers when it began at 7 p.m. ET.
The height viewers was at 19 million when Wealthy Strike was about to win the race. He had the worst odds of any horse and he nonetheless obtained the job performed.
NBC’s TV-only viewers was at 15.8 million, which makes it the community’s most-watched occasion because the Tremendous Bowl.
The viewers may very well be even increased when Rick Strike tries to win the second leg of the triple crown in two weeks. That occasion would be the Preakness Stakes, which is held simply exterior of Baltimore.
The Kentucky Derby has been a mainstay in sports activities for many years on finish so these scores ought to hardly be shocking.
After the Preakness on Might. 21 is the Belmont Stakes on Might. 28.