Despite being run at Laurel Park and lacking the Kentucky Derby winner, Saturday’s Preakness Stakes broadcast bagged its largest audience since 2021.
With no Kentucky Derby winner involved, television ratings for Saturday’s 150th Preakness Stakes declined 16% versus last year.
Saturday’s NBC broadcast of the 146th Preakness Stakes garnered the event’s highest ratings since 2018, 29% above the 2019 event.
TV ratings for the Preakness grew 7% versus 2015, with Baltimore achieving its highest ratings since 2009.