Telecasts · Horse Racing

Kentucky Derby

Name: Kentucky Derby
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2011-05-07 · Horse Racing · NBC

14,540,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2011-05-11

Published figures

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average audience

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press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

The race portion of the 2011 Kentucky Derby earned an 8.5 final rating and 14.54 million viewers on NBC, down 13% in ratings and 12% in viewership from last year (9.8, 16.540M), and down 13% and 10%, respectively, from 2009 (9.8, 16.288M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

14,540,000

1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

On the record

NetworksNBC

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

Kentucky Derby

2010-05-01 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

16,500,000

Preakness Stakes

2010-05-15 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

8,400,000

2 windows sit the same distance from 52 weeks earlier; the site does not pick one, so no percent is computed.
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on NBC, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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Kentucky Derby (2011-05-07): 14,540,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2011-05-11, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2011/05/kentucky-derby-though-down-derby-fourth-most-viewed-since-90/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/kentucky-derby-2011-05-07, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950

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