I added John Oliver’s HBO show, Last Week Tonight, to the ratings mix.  Whether that’s appropriate or not is an interesting issue, but as you will see below it is a non-trivial change.  You can always review the detailed numbers to factor it in our out of the rankings, and I will try to footnote things if the show tops the charts as it does this week.

Sunday was somewhat a tie between MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris-Perry Show and HBO’s Last Week Tonight for most mentions during a broadcast (see note 1 below the jump).  In terms of most mentions during the day, Meet The Press won, although if you remove it from the running (given that many of the mentions are driven by broadcast TV rather than cable TV), then The Melissa Harris-Perry Show would have won that as well. (See note 2 below the jump).

All in all, then, The Melissa Harris-Perry Show won Cable News Twitter Sunday.

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Saturdays usually belong to Fox News’ Cashin’ In, and yesterday was no different for Eric Bolling’s half-hour show.  With just a half-hour of air-time, he managed to more than double the Twitter engagement of his competitors — in and out of the same hour.  Imagine how well he’d do with a full hour?

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