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With the Triple Crown out of reach, this year’s Preakness Stakes has dropped to an average of 4.6 million viewers on television.
Apart from the 2020 pandemic year, it’s the lowest number since Preakness in 1995 attracted 4.4 million viewers on ABC. Sports Business Journal.
According to estimates from NIELSEN and Adobe Analytics, NBC audiences averaged 5.9 million during the half hour, starting with EDT at 7pm, when Preakness won.
The Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty link chose to skip preakness and points three weeks later. Derby runner-up Journalism won Preakness in the thriller. Journalism was shipped to Saratoga, but his connections have not confirmed whether he will run in Belmont.
Sports Media Watch reported that despite a decline in audience, PREAKNES was the most viewed sporting event on the day Kate Linklark appeared in the opening game of the WNBA season, the third round of the PGA Championship Golf Tournament, when the New York Mets and Yankees played in the Metro Series.
