Monthly Archives: January 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for Monday, January 13, 2014

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-13

You have to love the world-wide influence Piers Morgan has on Twitter. But I don’t have to love how hard it is to disentangle his world-wide mentions from his domestic ones.  That problem surfaced today when Cristiano Ronaldo won FIFA’s player of the year award, the Ballon d’Or, beating out the previous winner, Lionel Messi.

Words and hashtags related to this event swamped the mentions of US cable news shows and personalities, particularly Mr. Morgan, giving an unusually worldly feel to the Twitter conversation.

Monday also welcomed Thomas A. Roberts to MSNBC’s Way Too Early, and Alex Wagner to take over Martin Bashir’s old 4pm slow, although neither managed to get into the trending topics.

For detailed hour by hour, show by show ratings, see this:

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Melissa Harris-Perry is the top trender in Cable News for Sunday, January 12, 2014

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When you look at Tweets that mention cable news shows, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry was the top show, her #nerland the top hashtag (beating out #goldenglobes — but only in the context of a cable news show, to be fair).  And “People” was the most popular word.

As with Saturday, Chris Christie has dropped way down in the mentions.  Perhaps Monday will come with some new revelations, but I suspect that it’s going to be a long while before he perks back up in the news.

You can see the detailed hour-by-hour, show-by-show ratings in my detailed analysis.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 3038 MSNBC: Melissa Harris-Perry Show
Most Mentions During Day 7448 MSNBC: Melissa Harris-Perry Show

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