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R. Thomas Umstead

Weekly Cable Ratings: ESPN Opens New Year on Top of Primetime, Total Day Charts

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ESPN rang in the New Year with a pair of College Football Playoff games that helped the sports network top both the primetime and total day charts for the first week of 2024.

ESPN averaged 4.9 million viewers during the week of January 1-7 to easily beat second-place Fox News Channel, which averaged 1.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen numbers supplied by Fox News. The network was bolstered by its Alabama-Michigan and Washington-Texas CFP semifinal games, which drew 22 million and 17.6 million viewers, respectively. 

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