Monthly Archives: January 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for Thursday, January 23 2014 — Bieber Fever!

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-23

Although Chris Hayes had the most mentions during a broadcast hour on Thursday, Justin Bieber was the dominate topic of conversation.  As a result, E! News, which normally spikes high whenever something about One Direction happens, got a huge bump during the day.  You can see in the gender breakdown that 76% of E! News mentioners on Twitter are female, which is no surprise given Justin Bieber was the topic of conversation.

This is also seen in the tag cloud (#freebieber is the 5th most popular hashtag) and word cloud (Justin is the most popular word) for the day.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2203 MSNBC: All In w/ Chris Hayes
Most Mentions During Day 16188 E: E! News

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 67129 52283 333069009 56 % 44 %
Fox News 30680 17143 145622639 61 % 39 %
MSNBC 30142 12071 150783448 53 % 47 %
E 16188 12793 52365007 24 % 76 %
Comedy Central 8090 6993 22154246 58 % 42 %
HLN 4639 2937 28760128 43 % 57 %
Al Jazeera 4310 2979 19118638 58 % 42 %
HBO 1760 1437 4598713 70 % 30 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#tcot 4189
#lnyhbt 2788
#inners 2365
#maddow 2076
#freebieber 1822
#edshow 1442
#p2 1429
#tgdn 1204
#teaparty 1186
#bieber 1114

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #ac360 #ac360later #alec #alltimehigh #asksnowden #backstageexpress #benghazi #bieber #breaking #bridgegate #c2gthr #ccot #chillout #christie #cnn #crossfire #ctl #dailyshow #deportbieber #desperation #dickpicproductivity #dolphin #edshow #exclusive #facebook #foxnews #freebieber #freejustinbieber #freethe7 #gop #goteamusa #grammys #hannity #hardball #helpcovedolphins #hottieoftheweek #huckabee #idol #inners #investingirls #iran #justiceforbenghazi4 #justinbieber #kellyfile #lastword #libcrib #lnyhbt #lufthansa #maddow #marchforlife #mata #morningjoe #msnbc #mutts #nasri #newday #news #nra #nsa #obama #obamacare #ocra #opinions #p2 #pjnet #politicsnation #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #sea #slaughter #snowden #sotu #sotuis #syria #taiji #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #theimposter #thelead #tlot #tpp #tvd #tweet4taiji #tylerdoohan #ukraine #unbeliebable #unclesugar #uniteblue #uppers #vanpursestrings #war #waronwomen #webelieb #werenotsodif

 

Word Cloud across all shows

40 60k america around arrest arrested back believe best bieber bieber’s bill can day drag drinking drop dui first ford’s get girl go going good gop got great grip hacked half hill hill’s humble interview jail jonah just justin know late like made make marijuana measly mugshot need new news now obama offensiv oh old one opinion opinions people please police racing really released right rob salary say says see shot show singer smoking state storyline street suggestion supporters syrian think time times today tonight twitter two uncle us using wall want watch will wolf women work world year years

  

Cable News Trending Topics for Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-22

What’s happening all over? I’ll tell you what is happening all over.
Guys sitting home before the television set who used to be something of a rover.
That is what’s happening all over.
— Frank Loesser

Not a whole lot grabbed the attention of Cable News views on Wednesday, with no dominate theme showing up in the Twitter conversation.  So much so that The Colbert Report got the most mentions during a broadcast on Wednesday, which is unusual for a couple of reasons.  First, the show is not live, so there isn’t a feeling of a real-time conversation; you never see tweets on the Chyron like with more avant-garde shows. Second, the show is only a half-hour long, and so it has to have twice the intensity of mentions to compete with hour-long shows.

I guess it was just a slow news day…

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2114 Comedy Central: The Colbert Report (11:30-12am)
Most Mentions During Day 29372 CNN: Piers Morgan Live

See the companion post for detailed hour by hour, show by show results.

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Cable News Twitter Ratings for Wednesday, January 22, 2014 — Something new to (Colbert) Report!

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An unusual win for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, which had the best hour of the day — all in a half-hour.  Clearly the cold weather and lack of breaking news depressed talk about more traditional cable news shows.  If you look at only more traditional cable news shows, MSNBC’s The Ed Show wins best hour.

Meanwhile, Piers Morgan continues to mix it up on Twitter, and as a result he has the most mentions during the day…

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Chris Christie and Twitter: Tracking Public Interest in the Scandals

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Depending upon what media outlet you follow, there has been ongoing news about NJ Governor Chris Christie and his problems with Fort Lee and Hoboken.  But the political question everyone wants to answer is “how is this affecting him?” If we look on Twitter, the answer seems to be that while there was an initial burst of interest, things have almost quieted down:

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Clearly, in social media it’s a matter of wait-and-see.  And so we wait for the investigations to take their course and to see what comes out of them …