
ESPN, led by holiday NBA and NFL telecasts, was the most-watched cable network in primetime and total day last week.
ESPN averaged 4.7 million viewers for the week of December 25-31, easily besting second place Fox News Channel’s 1 million viewers for the week, according to Nielsen numbers supplied by Fox News. The sports network benefited from a December 30 Dallas Cowboys-Detroit Lions NFL telecast that averaged 11.3 million viewers.