Saturday saw Fox News’ Cashin’ In haul in an amazing number of mentions, with roughly 7.5K during the 11am hour and over 37K for the day as a whole. Clearly Cashin’ In’s viewers were deeply engaged in the conversation about the show. Cashin’ In’s mentions equalled those of the next 9 shows combined!
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This marks two days in a row that Eric Bolling has dominated Cable News Twitter: Friday, from guest hosting The O’Reilly Factor and Saturday with Cashin’ In.
Ronan Farrow’s “7 days of genius” did respectably well in the noon slot — far better than his normal weekday show typically did. If MSNBC is sincere in looking for a new way to use him, this kind of programming seems to fit his strengths.
The Melissa Harris-Perry Show pulled in a moderate level of mentions, but the split hosting (with Dorian Warren in New York and MHP herself in Selma) did not seem to catch fire with viewers.
I had expected that the coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Selma march to have done well on Cable News Twitter yesterday, and so I was surprised when it did not. I suspect that part of that was due to people tweeting about the event itself, rather than the coverage. I tried to capture the sets of commentators the networks put on the air; CNN fielded an impressive collection, for example. My coverage may not have been perfect, nonetheless. I also left the original programs that were preempted by Selma in place, so if you see conflicting shows know that the non-Selma ones probably didn’t run (or fully run).
Raw data: 2015-03-07-ShowStats.csv
