NBC announces BC coverage

[Merlinsky]

Wait, so lemme get this straight, they'll cut into college football coverage on NBCSN, air the Juvenile Fillies, then go back to what they were doing? Any meaningful anything besides the race itself gonna happen there? How much analysis and post-race coverage are we gonna get? They have two days to get these races on tv in legitimate fashion and we get a slot between commercial breaks on cable for a race that truly special fillies have come out of? Surely of all the races to put in this position, they could've figured out a different way of scheduling so that it wasn't the Juvenile Fillies. "Live bonus coverage" is code for 'we're pre-empting the beginning of BC day on Saturday but will do you a solid and at least air that first race.'

I'm sure they'll argue it'll get eyeballs for the race that wouldn't otherwise be there, but anybody there for Notre Dame-Navy is gonna use this as an opportunity to get another beer and gripe that the horse racing is interfering with their football.