The Kelly File won best hour on Cable News Twitter Thursday while Hannity had the best day over all. This suggests the discussion over Jon Stewart’s not-so-imminent departure from The Daily Show is starting to die down.
Following Kelly for best hour were On The Record w/Greta Van Susteren, Hannity, The Five w/Hosts, and Morning Joe:
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You can see from the chart that Kelly had a nearly 2:1 lead on the number 2 show, On The Record.
Raw Data: 2015-02-12-ShowStats.csv
The shootings in Chapel Hill completely dominated the conversation on Cable News Twitter on Wednesday, with ongoing conversation about Jon Stewart’s retirement coming in a distant second:
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Raw data: 2015-02-11-TagStats.csv and 2015-02-11-WordStats.csv
For a guy who said he’s going to do something maybe 8 months from now (or maybe not), Jon Stewart sure holds the the attention of Twitter, getting over 37K mentions yesterday. Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly managed to rack up almost 5K mentions during her broadcast hour. Kelly was followed by the 1 am rerun of The Daily Show, Hannity, the 9 am rerun of The Daily Show, and The Rachel Maddow Show:
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Raw data for the day: 2015-02-11-ShowStats.csv
No doubt, the announced retirement of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show managed to dominate the conversation on Cable News Twitter on Tuesday. Snuck into the middle of that was the hashtag #johnyouareinvited, which started out to be a plea to John Oliver and Last Week Tonight to say nice things about Ecuador, as far as I can tell. But then the hashtag was jumped on by critics of Ecuador and turned into a minor (astro-) turf battle between the pro and con.
Here’s the top 30 words and tags for the day:
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Raw Data: 2015-02-10-WordStats.csv and 2015-02-10-TagStats.csv
Jon Stewart won Cable News Twitter yesterday with the announcement of his eventual retirement from helming The Daily Show. I expect that this will overflow into Wednesday’s conversation as well. Meanwhile, The Kelly File won best hour, followed by The Daily Show, Anderson Cooper 360, On The Record w/Greta Van Susteren, and Morning Joe:
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Raw data for the day: 2015-02-10-ShowStats.csv