Tuesday saw the continuation of Last Week Tonight’s dominance in Cable News Twitter, as it won the best day overall. Clearly, Sunday’s show had legs. In terms of best hour, Fox News’ The Kelly File managed to win, followed by Hannity, The Five w/Hosts, On The Record w/Greta Van Susteren, and Morning Joe:
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Last Week Tonight, even though it was only shown at 4am, managed to come in at 19th place in hourly rankings as well…
Raw data: 2015-02-17-ShowStats.csv
Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver’s weekend comedy/news show on HBO, did an extended report on big tobacco’s attempts to roll back anti-smoking laws outside of the USA. At the end of the report, Oliver suggested a new mascot for Marlboro: Jeff the diseased lung in a cowboy outfit. Along with the new mascot, Oliver introduced a new hashtag, #JefWeCan. Monday the tag went viral:
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ISIS only managed to get a third of Jeff’s traffic on Twitter…
Raw data: 2015-02-16-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-16-WordStats.csv
Last Week Tonight (HBO’s news show with John Oliver) won the best hour on Sunday, and we see the spillover Monday as it won the best day overall on Cable News Twitter. In terms of most mentions during its broadcast hour, Fox News’s The Kelly File came in at the top, followed by Hannity, On The Record w/Greta Van Susteren, The Rachel Maddow Show, and The Five w/Hosts:
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Raw Data: 2015-02-16-ShowStats.csv
Conservative hashtags ruled the day on Cable News Twitter, with #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), #WakeUpAmerica (Used by the Fox News show Cashin’ In), and #LNYHBT (used by Sean Hannity) taking the top 3 spots. After those, Obama and ISIS rounded out the top 5:
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Raw Data: 2015-02-15-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-15-WordStats.csv
This was an interesting Sunday in Cable News Twitter: HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” had the most mentions during its hour, while Fox News Sunday had the most mentions overall. Following LWT were the 11am Melissa Harris-Perry Show, the 9am Up w/Steve Kornacki, Fox News Sunday, and the 10 am Melissa Harris-Perry Show:
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I suppose you could say that John Oliver’s show is not news, and therefore the MHP show should claim first place. But that ignores the fact that Oliver does discuss the news and, for a half-hour show, managed to bring in more mentions overall than MHP, a two hour show.
If you look back, year over year, you see that MHP’s mentions have fallen somewhere around 50%; if her mentions were as strong as a year ago they would have been enough, on a good day, to beat Oliver.
Raw data: 2015-02-15-ShowStats.csv