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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 ...
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 ...
Broadcaster Mike Tirico stepped away from NBC's Kentucky Derby coverage Saturday, and his replacement pointed to illness as the reason.
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 ...
Uncertainty over the economy due to President Donald Trump’s oscillating tariff policies looms large over America’s longest ...
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 ...
The longtime NBC Sports commentator was scheduled to head up NBC’s coverage of the annual horse race, setting up the scene at Churchill Downs in a variety of interviews and appe ...
The 151st Kentucky Derby delivered its largest audience for NBC since 1989 with an average of 17.7 million viewers.
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 ...
When NBC carried the Kentucky Derby for the first time in 2001, the broadcast lasted only 90 minutes. On Saturday, when it carries the Run for the Roses for the 25th time, 90 minutes wouldn’t be ...