Cable News Twitter Ratings for Thursday, March 13, 2014 – Chicagoland lands a win

CNN’s Chicagoland won the best hour on Thursday, showing the power of special programming to help revive the networks’ flagging performance.  More good news for CNN: The 9pm showing of AC 360 managed to win its slot, showing the benefit of breaking (or at least mystifying) world news to attract viewers to CNN.

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Trending Topics in Cable News for Wednesday, March 12, 2014 – Planes, Buildings, Spys

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-03-12

Bad news dominated the conversation on Wednesday: The missing Malaysia Airline flight (which is starting to rank up there with Jimmy Hoffa in all time disappearances), and the building explosion in Harlem.  A little bit of the CIA’s spying on congress snuck into the trending topics as well…

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Cable News Twitter Ratings for Tuesday, March 11, 2014 – Farrow gets the Colbert Bump

The irony: Ronan Farrow appeared on The Colbert Report last night and that show got more than 10 times the mentions, in a half hour, than Ronan Farrow Daily received earlier in the day.  Enough mentions, in fact, to give The Colbert Report a best (half-) hour win for the day.  Perhaps there’s just more millennials watching TV 11:30 at night than 1pm in the afternoon?

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