Cable News Trending Topics for January 30, 2014 — MSNBC becomes the News!

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-30

As explained in the detailed ratings for the day, a tweet from MSNBC that implied right wingers are racially intolerant dwarfed all other news items in terms of discussion around cable news shows.  The top shows for the day were actually conversation about the network, not any particular show.

Of course, the #myrightwingbiracialfamily hashtag’s dominance is very predictable in what passes for political debate this country: one side seizes upon some bit of stupidity on the other side to gloat and express their own superiority, virtue, and victimhood.

And, of course, there will shortly arise a new outrage du jour and this will fade.  But for a brief glorious moment, bi-racial right wing families stepped into the spotlight

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2929 MSNBC: MSNBC Live
Most Mentions During Day 36728 MSNBC: MSNBC Live

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
MSNBC 64940 23426 245256652 57 % 43 %
Fox News 26914 15103 126917081 65 % 35 %
CNN 26894 19912 381931924 60 % 40 %
E 14393 10994 192535083 30 % 70 %
Comedy Central 7572 6374 16213907 59 % 41 %
HLN 3551 2387 23743473 41 % 59 %
Al Jazeera 3472 2455 12783763 62 % 38 %
HBO 1950 1687 6353024 60 % 40 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#myrightwingbiracialfamily 6375
#tcot 5520
#lnyhbt 2987
#cantremembertoforgetyou 2735
#maddow 2191
#teaparty 2005
#p2 1982
#sneakpeek 1921
#inners 1813
#gop 1799

Tag Cloud across all shows

#17tdebt #2a #5things #ac360 #amandak #amandaknox #americanhustle #asksean #atlanta #ayersdsouza #benghazi #beyondcandid #boycottmsnbc #bridgegate #cantremembertoforgetyou #ccot #cheerios #cnn #cnnexclusive #confidentmusicvideo #crossfire #crtfy #ctl #dailyshow #digitalmaidan #edshow #flawless #foxnews #fullhouse #gop #hannity #hardball #hottieoftheweek #inners #iran #irantalks #kalebnationondrdrew #kellyfile #knox #lastword #leftwingersmayhatethisbut #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #marijuana #mileycollab #minimumwage #morningjoe #msnbc #mufc #myrightwin #myrightwingbiracialfamily #nerdland #newday #news #nfl #nra #nsa #obama #obamacare #ocra #ofa #outfront #p2 #philgriffin #pjnet #pll #politicsnation #puppybowl #racebaiters #racist #raisethewage #realtime #rednationrising #sb48 #seinfeld #sexyrestaurants #sgp #sneakpeek #snowedoutatlanta #sotu #superbowl #syria #tbt #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thatawkwardmoment #thefive #thelead #throwbackthursday #tlot #tpot #ukraine #uniteblue #uppers #wearethepeople #wiunion

 

Word Cloud across all shows

100000 8pm ad again amanda apologize atlanta back biracial breaking can charts cheerios christie conservative court deport et every family found fox get go going good gop great guilty happy hate help hey hope house interview joe just know knox last like live look love make man mayor msnbc much need never new news next now obama offensive one people petition please premiering president pt race racist reaches really respond right say says see shakira show signatures special state still stop storm sure take tells think time tomorrow tonight tweet union us want watch white will world year years yes

  

Cable News Twitter Ratings for January 30, 2014 — Tweet! Tweet!

One of the problems with doing Twitter analytics for shows is that not all shows have unique Twitter accounts or hashtags.  And so for “generic” shows I use the network’s Twitter account under the assumption that anyone who wants to mention the show will be stuck using the general account, like @MSNBC.   Such is the case for MSNBC Live, which is the general news shows MSNBC fills holes in its schedule.

But every once in a while this blows up: people are talking about the network itself, rather than its shows.  Such was the case on Thursday, when the dust-up over a tweet that implied that right wingers are against inter-racial marriage stormed Twitter, and people mentioned @MSNBC all over the place.

So, when you see the stats below for most popular show hour and day, it just means that MSNBC itself was the dominant topic.  Absent that, The Ed Show would have been in first place.

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Cable News Trending Topics for Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-29

Funny how, on the night of the State of the Union address, the right wing managed to dominate Twitter, but the day after the liberal MSNBC seized top spot.  I’m not sure what that means….

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2900 MSNBC: The Rachel Maddow Show
Most Mentions During Day 27983 MSNBC: MSNBC Live

See the complete hour by hour, show by show ratings here.

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Trending Topics on Cable News for Tuesday, January 28, 2014: Fox News & SOTU

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-28

You probably aren’t surprised that the State of the Union address was the dominant topic on Twitter for cable news.  But you might be surprised what network dominated the talk: Fox News.  The hosts of “The Five” managed to garner almost half of all mentions,  for Fox News, and the Fox News Channel managed to get about 25% more mentions than MSNBC did.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2906 CNN: Piers Morgan Live
Most Mentions During Day 38566 Fox News: The Five w/Hosts

You can see the complete breakdown of all shows for the day here.

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