Morning Joe became all-day Joe as Joe Scarborough’s comments about media coverage of Ferguson ricocheted around the twitter-verse, giving him the most mentions throughout the day. And even though The Kelly File won best hour, Morning Joe was just a bit behind her in that category:

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Although much of the conversation on Twitter was scathing about Scarborough, it is interesting to note that it was his conservative side, even on MSNBC, that brought him Fox News levels of buzz.

Raw data for the Day: 2014-12-01-ShowStats.csv

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A strong day for the Melissa Harris-Perry show, with it winning both the best hour and best day.  Sunday’s top 5 was a clean sweep for MSNBC:

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Raw data for day: 2014-11-30-ShowStats.csv

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As the weekend schedules started to return to normal after holiday programming, activity levels on Twitter started to pick back up.  Cashin’ In was at its usual levels, down a very slight 6% from last weekend’s record high. All other leading shows were down, most much more dramatically than that.

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I’m just about at the point where I’ll have to plot Saturday’s chart with a log scale:

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More useful for reading the levels of the shows in the tail,  but quite deceptive to the human eye.

The raw data for the day: 2014-11-29-ShowStats.csv

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Friday’s schedule was a special holiday one, with much of the normal programming displaced by re-runs and pre-taped shows.  As a result, the conversation on Twitter was subdued.  Greta one the best hour with a very low 703 mentions, while MSNBC live, which filled most of that network’s shortened news day, had the most mentions overall.

Raw data: 2014-11-28-ShowStats.csv

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You know it’s a quiet day when a re-run gets the most mentions — in this case, The Colbert Report, which had a re-run early in the day.  And when the best hour was had by a show that got 600 mentions.  Well, I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving!

Raw data: 2014-11-27-ShowStats.csv

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