The Colbert Report won best hour (even though it’s a half-hour) on Thursday, while Hannity turned in a strong day overall. If you don’t count Colbert, then The Kelly File is the winner for best hour.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Trending Topics in Cable News for Wednesday, June 11, 2014 — Not Cantor, Oddly Enough
Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-06-11
You might have expected talk about Eric Cantor’s loss to totally dominate cable news Twitter on Wednesday. And yet it didn’t. This shows that, apart from the initial shock the night of the election, talk about Eric Cantor is pretty much inside baseball.
Cable News Twitter Ratings for Wednesday, June 11, 2014 — Colbert Rules
While The Kelly File had the best hour, the clear winner for the day was The Colbert Report, which had almost 14,000 mentions on Twitter throughout the day. In second place for best day was Hannity.
Interestingly, the bulk of Colbert’s tweets occurred between 11am and 4pm EDT, which is not a time the show broadcasts…
Trending Topics in Cable News for Tuesday, June 10, 2014 — Eric Cantor
Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-06-10
Even though the results in VA 7 came in late, it generate enough buzz to make the election the dominant topics for the day.
Cable News Twitter Ratings for Tuesday, June 10, 2014 — Kelly and Hannity
The Kelly File and Hannity won best hour and best day, suggesting that Eric Cantor’s loss was more talked about on the right than on the left (although it generated good traffic for MSNBC as well).