140th Belmont Stakes on ESPN/ABC HD
ESPN and ABC are devoting seven consecutive hours of high definition coverage to the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes this Saturday. Coverage starts at noon on ESPN, which will broadcast “Today at the Belmont Stakes” pre-race coverage. At 5:00 PM ET, the broadcast switces from ESPN to ABC, which will carry the actual race 6:30 PM ET.
ESPN is advertising 40 cameras to cover the race including “ESPN Rail-view camera, a super slo-mo camera and a blimp camera,” during their 40 hours of HD coverage.
Big Brown is a favorite to win the Belmont Stakes. With a win, Big Brown will become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978.
| 2008 140th Belmont Stakes | |||
| DATE | TIME (ET) | DESCRIPTION | NETWORK |
| 6/7/2008 | 12:00 PM | Today at the Belmont Stakes | ESPN (720p) |
| 6/7/2008 | 3:00 PM | The Belmont Stakes Special | ESPN (720p) |
| 6/7/2008 | 5:00 PM | The 140th Belmont Stakes Post Time: 6:30 PM |
ABC (720p) |
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June 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
How much horse racing coverage can one person watch!! Is there nothing better to do today!
June 7th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Pretty much nothing better to do, even if we wanted to, This is the yr. of the Triple Crown. ‘Big Brown can do it, Yes he can.’
Kind of the same thing for all those sports fanatics during football or whatever sport is in season.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
back off phil ,big brown is going to make hisyory and horses racing lovers as well as all horse lovers would like to see it happen.