Weekly Cable Ratings: ESPN Challenges Fox News for Top Spot in Primetime

ESPN’s Monday Night Football The telecast helped the sports network narrowly win Fox News Last week, it was awarded the best prime time program award.

ESPN averaged 2.56 million viewers for the week of Sept. 16-22, beating Fox News’ 2.51 million viewers and ending the network’s three-week losing streak, according to Fox News’ Nielsen data.