Racing’s weekly magazine programme on ITV4 was among the nominees at the Sports Journalism Awards this week
The Opening Show was keeping good company on Monday night, when racing’s weekly magazine programme was nominated in the ‘Best TV/Digital Show’ category alongside Match Of The Day and other heavy hitters at the Sports Journalism Awards. While the award eventually went to
Cricket on 5 for highlights of the final extraordinary day of the Ashes series, The Opening Show was given bronze in the seven-runner field, a significant piece of recognition for a programme that appears to be finding its feet and an audience.
Figures provided by ITV4 say the show, screened at 9.30am on Saturdays, has been getting an average audience of 175,000 this jumps season, since Cheltenham’s November meeting. That represents a 28% year-on-year increase, they say. It is a still greater increase on the 124,000 being reported at the end of 2017.