Last year NBC had five and a half hours of coverage for the Kentucky Derby and TSN4 had over 7 hours.  Today TSN had nothing, either did CTV.  Looks like no Canadian network covered the derby at all this year.
 
TSN had some of their own pre race coverage last year.  Wonder what happened?  Must admit the race seemed a bit of a non-event this year.  Forgot it was even on today. 
 

RadioActive wrote:

To be fair, I believe there were a few races at Churchill Downs Saturday prior to the Derby. But I don't know if NBC even bothered to carry them. I'm almost positive if it wasn't the Kentucky Derby, NBC wouldn't have bothered with any of them. I almost wish I would have watched some of it, if only to see what, exactly, they did to use up all that air time. 

I would have been out of things to say in the first hour, let alone 7 of them. 

And yes, I also noticed there were no Canadian stations taking it. I guess they didn't have the time to give up for that long. 

This was covered last year I believe, and again there were 14 races on the card and again all of the important ones were televised.  There is a story behind every horse that involves dozens of people, from average Joes to some almost cartoonish characters.  Also, several horses died at the track this week, once again prompting calls for accountability and increased safety measures for the horses.  As a result, more horses than usual were scratched for the derby because no one wanted to risk injuries or deaths.  So why doesn't that level of caution happen every year?  All of those storylines were covered, and there were swings in the betting line as the day went on. It's actually quite compelling.  You should have watched it instead of complaining while admitting to not knowing much about it.  TSN probably didn't cover it because this year the main NBC network had most of it, which would take about 50 percent of the audience away from TSN.  In previous years, the now defunct (and unavailable in Canada) NBC Sports Network used to carry much of the day because the main network had the NHL obligations, so TSN had the entire audince for the majority of the day.

Last edited by Tomas Barlow (May 7, 2023 2:34 am)

By the way, I heard CBC Radio's 11 o'clock news last night, read by Claude Feig, and there was not a word about the coronation, proving that the rest of the world did not stand still all day.