Kentucky Derby Tramples Oscars & Almost Everything Else In Viewership; NBC Broadcast Up From 2020, Down From 2019

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Right now, it really bites to be Essential Quality and the 93rd Academy Awards.Things are dire for the former because the odds favorite to win this year’s Kentucky Derby came fourth at the May 1 race.

As, for the latter, after crashing to an all-time viewership low of 10.4 million from its April 25 show, the Oscars are now being repeatedly trampled in comparison to events that previously barley even nipped at the heels of Hollywood’s biggest night.On April 29, it was the first day of the NFL Draft.

Now, it’s the turn of the 147th Kentucky Derby on NBC on Saturday to take the crown.As Medina Sprit took first place at a socially distanced Churchill Downs, the Comcast-owned network’s evening broadcast of the fabled race snagged an audience of