{"id":141040,"date":"2025-05-04T22:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/kentucky-derby-peaks-at-record-breaking-21-8-million-viewers-for-nbc\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T22:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T22:51:12","slug":"kentucky-derby-peaks-at-record-breaking-21-8-million-viewers-for-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/kentucky-derby-peaks-at-record-breaking-21-8-million-viewers-for-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Derby Peaks at Record-Breaking 21.8 Million Viewers for NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSaturday\u2019s reside protection of the 151st Kentucky Derby<\/a> delivered its largest viewers for NBC since 1989 with a mean of 17.7 million viewers.<\/p>\n

\n\tViewership of the race peaked at 21.8 million viewers, a document for NBC.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeacock achieved the very best site visitors of all partnered streamers for the race. With the 151st Derby, NBC Sports had the most important streaming viewers ever for a horse racing occasion, with an Average Minute Audience of 959,000 viewers. The community has achieved a mean of greater than 15 million viewers throughout all platforms for the final 10 of 12 Derbys. <\/p>\n

\n\tSoverignty was the winner<\/a> at Saturday\u2019s Kentucky Derby, taking house a prize of $3.1 million. The horse was jockeyed by Junior Alvarado. The victory marked his first profession win on the Kentucky Derby. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe different prime finishers included Journalism, Baeza, and Final Gambit. 19 horses competed within the race. <\/p>\n

\n\tGoing into the Derby, Journalism was the favourite to win at 7\/2 odds (through Kentucky Derby<\/a>), adopted by Sandman at 5-1 and Luxor Cafe at 8-1. Sovereignty had the fourth-best odds at 9-1 and American Promise had fifth finest at 11-1.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe different horses who competed on the 151st Kentucky Derby have been Citizen Bull, Neoquos, American Promise, Admire Daytona, Flying Mohawk, East Avenue, Publisher, Tiztastic, Render Judgement, Coal Battle, Chunk of Gold and Owen Almighty.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe whole prize pot for the Derby is $5 million, break up between the highest 5 finishers. Second place took house $1 million, third place received $500,000, fourth acquired $250,000 and fifth received $150,000. The profitable jockey, Alvarado, took house 10% of the first-place winnings, which is a reduce of $310,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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