John Oliver, Sean Hannity win Cable News Twitter on Sunday, March 8, 2015

Sunday was an unusual day for two reasons.  First, it didn’t have a 2am, owing to the shift to daylight saving time.  Second, there was intermittent live coverage of the 50th anniversary march over the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, AL.

I included a set of trackers for MSNBC’s coverage on the off-chance it captured a huge volume of Twitter activity.  It didn’t but, as I mentioned in coverage of Saturday’s results, most people were tweeting about the event itself more than the coverage of the event.

The winners for the day were HBO’s Last Week Tonight (which is a perennial best hour winner on Sundays when it’s on) and Hannity (who often wins best day overall).

Raw data: 2015-03-08-ShowStats.csv

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