With a names like Kelly and Hannity, how could they lose on Saint Patrick’s Day? Of course, they didn’t: Megyn Kelly won best hour and Sean Hannity won best day on Cable News Twitter.
Morning Joe also did fairly well, as did Greta, The Five, and Ed Schultz:
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Raw data: 2015-03-17-ShowStats.csv
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
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
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
It’s kind of a tongue twister like “Ruth’s Chris Steak House”1: Eric Bolling’s (guest hosting of) The O’Reilly Factor was the best show on Cable News Twitter on Friday, winning both the best hour as well as the best day overall:
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The Kelly File was a close second, and then Greta, Morning Joe, and Ed were more distant 3rd through 5th place finishes.
Raw data: 2015-03-13-SHOWSTATS
1: Obscure trivia: Ruth’s Chris is headquartered in Winter Park, FL. Eric Bolling went to college in Winter Park. I live not too far from Winter Park…