The Investec Derby Festival is always a highlight of the televised sporting calendar. Sunset+Vine produce the coverage for the BBC over the two days of the Festival which will be broadcast on:
Friday 1st June 2012
Saturday 2nd June 2012
More than 45 cameras will be utilised over the Festival including one in the jockeys’ changing room and a helicopter camera.
A total domestic audience of 3 million people witnessed the live broadcast of feature Investec Derby on BBC1 in 2009, representing a 26% per cent share of the television audience at the time. While the dedicated coverage over the two day festival reached 7 million people.
BBC Radio 5 Live covers the Investec Derby Festival extensively, with live reporting of both days from Epsom Downs augmented by a series of preview programmes.
In addition to worldwide news access and online reports, BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, distributes footage of the Investec Derby Festival to 140 countries worldwide. This makes the great race very much a global event with the estimated worldwide audience for the Investec Derby Festival being in excess of 1 billion.