A fairly typical Monday, with The Kelly File taking best hour and Hannity taking best day. Following Kelly for best hour were Hannity, The Five, On The Record w/Greta Van Susteren, and The Ed Show.
Raw data: 2015-03-16-ShowStats.csv
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Obama and Iran trend to top of Cable News Twitter topics while #WakeUpAmerica is top hashtag, 3/15/15
Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-03-15
There was no very dominant topic in Cable News on Sunday, although Obama and Iran trended towards the top. Fox News’ Saturday Show, Cashin’ In, had its hashtag, #WakeUpAmerica, trend at the very top of the list:
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Be aware that the count of words and hashtags is only in the context of tweets that mention specific Cable News shows, not in general. Thus, for example, the total number of mentions of #tcot on Twitter will be several orders of magnitude higher than shown in the graph (I estimate it’s about 70K tweets yesterday in total).
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight wins Cable News Twitter on Sunday, March 15, 2015
John Oliver’s HBO show Last Week Tonight won Cable News Twitter on Sunday, and not by a little:
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Following Oliver were each hour of Melissa Harris-Perry and then each hour of Up with Steve Kornacki.
In terms of the most tweets for the day overall, CNN International scored the most, although with a show like that it’s not clear what portion of the mentions were generated domestically. Following CNNi for Best Day was Meet The Press (which is shown on MSNBC at 2pm ET). Like CNNi, there are problems with its daily totals; in the case of MTP it comes from a wider showing on NBC local broadcast stations.
When you remove CNNi and MTP from the best day contenders, you are left with … Last Week Tonight. So it’s not unlikely that Last Week Tonight — in terms of purely Cable News terms — won both the best hour and best day overall.
And I didn’t even count mentions of #SoybeanWind, the humorous hashtag Oliver promoted during the show to protest the NCAA’s refusal to pay student athletes.
In other news, CNN’s Finding Jesus managed to come in to 6th place as the highest rated hourly CNN show. CNN has done really well with its shows like Parts Unknown, The Hunt, The 60s, Blackfish, etc., and clearly Finding Jesus will further CNN’s interest in these types of shows.
Raw data: 2015-03-15-ShowStats.csv
Top trending topics in Cable News Twitter for Saturday, March 14, 2015
Cable News Trending Topics for 2015-03-14
I’m not sure what people were talking about yesterday on Cable News Twitter — certainly no dominant topic. That happens, I guess. We do know who was saying it: the viewers of Fox News’ Cashin’ In and their hashtag #WakeUpAmerica:
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It is fun to make up sentences out of the most popular words. I bet “Obama now will like us” is probably not quite what people were saying, though. Although “Hillary people: police know” is intriguing. “Say truth President” — could be.
Raw data: 2015-03-14-TagStats.csv and 2015-03-14-WordStats.csv
Cashin’ In tops Cable News Twitter on Saturday, 3/14/15
Sadly, I’ve run out of superlatives to describe Fox News’ Cashin’ In’s performance (and nearly run out of apostrophes as a well), so it’s just-the-facts-ma’am time: Cashin’ In won both the best hour on Cable News Twitter as well as the best day, and had more mentions during its broadcast than all four hours of Melissa Harris-Perry and Up with Steve Kornacki combined.
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(Yes, for those who are picky, Cashin’ In is at 11:30 not 11:00; the data gets passed to the chart tagged with the hour only, not with the hour and minute of the show start).
Here’s the raw data for the day: 2015-03-14-ShowStats.csv