
ESPN's College Football Playoff championship game telecast helped it score a victory on the primetime ratings chart.
ESPN averaged 4.1 million viewers in primetime for the week of January 8-14, more than doubling second-place Fox News Channel’s 2 million viewers, according to Nielsen numbers provided by Fox News. ESPN was paced by the January 8 Michigan Wolverines-Washington Huskies college title game telecast, which averaged 24 million viewers.