Though describing Saturday’s 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes as “perhaps the biggest sports event this country has seen since the pandemic hit,” longtime NBC Sports Coordinating Producer Rob Hyland will not be on hand at the track for the production. Instead, with the health and safety of the crew as top priority, NBC Sports […] More
With the second Triple Crown in just four years on the line, NBC Sports Group is pulling out all the stops for coverage of this weekend’s 150th Belmont Stakes. With Justify poised to capture the final gem of the Triple Crown, NBC Sports Group has boosted its production complement, adding a second onsite studio set, […] More
SMT will provide fan-engagement technology solutions for NBC Sports Group’s broadcast of the 150th Belmont Stakes. This year marks the eighth consecutive Triple Crown collaboration between SMT and NBC Sports Group and is particularly exciting as Justify seeks to become only the second horse since 1978 to win a Triple Crown. More
It has been two years since American Pharoah ended the 37-year Triple Crown drought, a feat not likely to be forgotten any time soon. Even though this year’s Belmont Stakes doesn’t carry the same Triple Crown implications as the 2015 race, NBC Sports still plans to treat the 2017 version like the world-class event it […] More
As American Pharoah rounded the second turn at Belmont Park and began to pull away from the pack, the NBC Sports Group crew knew something special was about to happen. And, seated in NEP’s ND1, director Drew Esocoff and Coordinating Producer Rob Hyland were about to put into action a plan 37 years in the […] More
Count Mark Lazarus among the many rooting for horseracing’s 37-year Triple Crown drought to end on Saturday at Belmont Park. The NBC Sports Group chairman says he’s “very excited about American Pharoah. We do want it to happen.” A victory in the mile-and-half race would be a crowning moment of the programmer’s championship weekend, which […] More
It’s a familiar refrain at NBC Sports, but no one’s complaining. Once again, the Peacock will broadcast the Belmont Stakes with a potential Triple Crown on the line, as American Pharaoh looks to do what California Chrome (2014), I’ll Have Another (2012), Big Brown (2008), and so many others could not. American Pharoah will have […] More
Historic races have been the norm at NBC Sports Group this spring and summer with California Chrome making his dramatic – albeit failed – attempt at thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown and now the drama of cycling’s own crown jewel, the Tour de France. At the center of the network’s coverage again has been SMT, providing […] More
So here we are again. California Chrome is the latest horse to flirt with immortality, and NBC Sports Group’s production and engineering team is pulling out all the stops to provide unprecedented coverage of the 146th running of the Belmont Stakes. More
The NBC Sports Group’s Triple Crown show on Saturday will be in 5.1 surround audio for both NBC and NBCSN. In fact, the contender for the first Triple Crown in 36 years is prompting the Peacock network to expand its overall programming around the Belmont Stakes race to 16 hours, beginning with documentary and other […] More
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