Fox News’ Cashin’ In won a holiday-challenged weekend, leading its closest follower (Judge Jeanine) by 3 to 1 and beating its time-slot competitor, Melissa Harris-Perry, by 4 to 1.  Apart from #1 Cashin’ In and #2 Judge Jeanine, no shows could muster over 1000 mentions during their broadcast:

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Other notes:

• The Melissa Harris-Perry Show was guest hosted by Dorian Warren.
• CNN brought back it’s “Blackfish” documentary for another run, and it got the most mentions of any CNN show on Saturday and was in 7th place overall.  Perhaps CNN felt the recent news about Seaworld make the documentary relevant again.  Or perhaps it just gets good ratings whenever it’s shown.
• Hannity had the best day overall

Raw data for the day: 2014-12-20-ShowStats.csv and 2014-12-20 Schedule.csv

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The Colbert Report exploded on Friday after it’s finale on Thursday (which ended right at midnight EST).  The best hour count was for the 9am rerun, although odds are high that it was just general chatter at that time rather than actual viewers.  The second best hourly count was also The Colbert Report for its 6pm showing; again, this was probably just ongoing conversation rather than viewers of that specific time.  Following Colbert was The Reid Report, Rachel Maddow, and the Ed Show.  Interestingly, the first Fox News show to make the list was at #10 for 7pm’s showing of On The Record.  For all the shows, the evening was very, very quiet:

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Raw data for the day: 2014-12-19-ShowStats.csv and 2014-12-19 Schedule.csv

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Stephen Colbert left the air on top of Cable News Twitter, winning both Best Day and Best Hour. Following Colbert for best hour was the 6pm showing of Colbert, Hannity, Kelly, and Schultz:

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Raw data: 2014-12-18-ShowStats.csv and 2014-12-18 Schedule.csv

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