Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-01-04
The death of ESPN sportscaster Scott Stuart dominated Cable News Twitter conversations on Sunday, followed by Iran and the Roger Ebert documentary “Life Itself”:
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As a side note, as CNN is not showing the Blackfish documentary (and has not shown it for a while), I am not tracking its mentions anymore — at least until CNN decides to show it again.
Raw data for the day: 2015-01-04-TagStats.csv and 2015-01-04-WordStats.csv
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 1721 | CNN: Life Itself |
| Most Mentions During Day | 6749 | CNN: Life Itself |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| CNN | 47822 | 32188 | 542690484 | 67 % | 33 % |
| Fox News | 42892 | 19498 | 254880384 | 61 % | 39 % |
| MSNBC | 20606 | 11304 | 66615391 | 55 % | 45 % |
| CBS | 3119 | 1868 | 36780134 | 48 % | 52 % |
| Al Jazeera | 1452 | 1180 | 10874776 | 48 % | 52 % |
| HBO | 1325 | 1074 | 3135225 | 58 % | 42 % |
| ABC | 921 | 622 | 16480503 | 57 % | 43 % |
| HLN | 609 | 509 | 3344157 | 46 % | 54 % |
| Comedy Central | 319 | 279 | 970339 | 49 % | 51 % |
Most popular hashtags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #iran | 7437 |
| #lifeitself | 5253 |
| #irantalks | 4409 |
| #tcot | 4211 |
| #nerdland | 2953 |
| #lnyhbt | 2318 |
| #pjnet | 1818 |
| #nypd | 1717 |
| #uppers | 1536 |
| #humanrights | 1507 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #19tdebt #2a #60minutes #airasia #americans #blacklivesmatter #botl #breaking #c2gthr #campliberty #cashinin #ccot #cdcwhistleblower #celebapprentice #celebrityapprentice #cnn #disclosure #discovercnn #ditchmitch #dumpboehner #elephants #endstigma #espn #espy #facebook #factcheckthat #fbi #ferguson #fireboehner #fns #foxnews #fullrepeal #godsinshackles #goirish #gop #hannity #humanrights #inners #iran #irantalks #irantalksvienna #iraq #isis #lastweektonight #lfc #lifeitself #liu #lnyhbt #maddow #molonlabe #msnbc #mtp #nerdland #never4get #neverforget #newday #news #newyear #nra #nycmayor #nypd #obama #operationchristmaschild #p2 #pjnet #poverty #prolife #qz8501 #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #retweet #rogerebert #saudi #selma #sgp #sharpton #sot #stuartscott #syria #tcot #teaparty #tehran #terrorist #tgdn #thisweek #tlot #tpot #tpp #trcot #un #unavainaloca #uniteblue #uppers #usa #voice4thepride #whatif #withnypd #yamecanse18 #ycot |
Word Cloud across all shows
| 2015 again aired american announced back battling beautiful best big boehner brother cancer candidate chief cnn co cop day die ebert et fight film fox friend full funeral gets go gohmert going good great house icymi inspired john just kind know last let life like live lose love make man mean morning mullahs murdered name need new news now nypd obama officer old one pay people police president rambo rambo’ read rest returns roger running say says scott see show sign speaker stallone still stuart sylvester taxes think time today tonight tribute us want watch watching way white will year |