Telecasts · Horse Racing

Kentucky Derby

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

2022-05-07 · Horse Racing · NBC

15,790,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2022-05-10

Published figures

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press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

The race portion of Saturday's Kentucky Derby averaged a 7.7 rating and 15.79 million viewers on NBC, marking the highest rating and viewership for the event in three years (2019: 9.4, 16.34M), the second-largest audience for the race in the past five years, and the seventh-largest audience since 1989. Sports Media Watch, verbatim

15,790,000

via pressaverage audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

The race portion of Saturday's Kentucky Derby averaged a 7.7 rating and 15.79 million viewers Sports Media Watch, verbatim

15,790,000

2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

On the record

NetworksNBC

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

Kentucky Derby

2021-05-01 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

14,370,000

Preakness Stakes

2021-05-15 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

7,010,000

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 (2022-05-07): 15,790,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2022-05-10, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2022/05/kentucky-derby-ratings-increase-rich-strike-viewership-nbc/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/kentucky-derby-2022-05-07, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020

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