Telecasts · Horse Racing

Kentucky Derby

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

2016-05-07 · Horse Racing · NBC

15,500,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2016-05-10

Published figures

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average audience

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press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

The race portion of the 2016 Kentucky Derby delivered a 9.0 final rating and 15.5 million viewers on NBC Saturday evening, down 6% in ratings and 3% in viewership from last year (9.6, 16.0M) and down 4% and up 1%, respectively, compared to 2014 (9.4, 15.3M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

15,500,000

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

2015-05-02 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

16,000,000

Preakness Stakes

2015-05-16 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

8,900,000

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 (2016-05-07): 15,500,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2016-05-10, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2016/05/kentucky-derby-ratings-down-nbc-nyquist/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/kentucky-derby-2016-05-07, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950

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