1. Television Ratings and Program Content Two days prior to the Kentucky Derby, CNBC’s Melissa Francis anchored a one-hour primetime television program titled “Run for the Roses:  The Kentucky Derby and the Business of Horse Racing.”    The show was supplemented with four online vignettes hosted by Francis called, respectively, “The $4 Billion Industry,” “Online Betting,” [...]

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Popular national radio and television sports-talk personality Jim Rome is a racehorse owner who allocates program time periodically to bantering about Thoroughbred racing.   He occasionally interviews TVG host/reporter Christina Olivares and she has reciprocated by having Mr. Rome on TVG. Mr. Rome’s TV and radio shows are terrific places to be talking up racing because [...]

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On the sports front, 1919 would long be remembered for historical “firsts” in Thoroughbred horse racing and Major League Baseball.

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