Ebola, yes, but policing in America too: Trending Topics in Cable News for Saturday, October 18, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-10-18

Some days, the topics drive the conversation by themselves — like the constant Twitter talk about Ebola.  But some days, the shows drive the topics that drive the conversation. Sunday was a bit of a day like this, where Ebola still dominated the conversation, but as you venture down the ranks you can see conversation about police and policing in America being driven by the MSNBC Saturday morning shows:

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You can download the raw data here: 2014-10-18-TagStats.csv and 2014-10-18-WordStats.csv

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 5338 Fox News: Cashin In
Most Mentions During Day 14757 Fox News: Cashin In

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
Fox News 41534 16171 352893123 58 % 42 %
CNN 26405 15743 239051138 56 % 44 %
MSNBC 15952 7728 88271757 51 % 49 %
HBO 4791 3887 15440403 63 % 37 %
Comedy Central 2419 2064 13816944 59 % 41 %
Al Jazeera 1092 855 5040021 57 % 43 %
HLN 439 338 2144469 45 % 55 %
CBS 336 256 11388270 53 % 47 %
ABC 227 173 15580035 59 % 41 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#cashinin 10068
#tcot 5960
#ebola 4844
#lnyhbt 2786
#nerdland 2095
#uppers 1770
#pjnet 1596
#blackfish 1533
#uniteblue 1372
#tgdn 1319

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #ac360 #benghazi #blackfish #breaking #c #c2gthr #campliberty #cashinin #cavuto #ccot #cdc #chicagoland #cnn #cnnafrica #cnnroots #cruise #dallas #ditchmitch #duncan #ebola #ebolaczar #edshow #emptythetanks #fact #ferguson #ff #fitn #forbesonfox #foxnews #gamergate #gop #gotv #hannahgraham #hannity #hipaa #inners #iran #irantalks #iraqi #isis #justice #kellyfile #kobane #kobani #lastweektonight #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #morningjoe #msnbc #mtp #ncsen #nerdland #nerds #newday #news #nhdebate #nhpolitics #nhsen #nra #obama #obamacare #occupy #ohio #p2 #partsunknown #pjnet #pulpitfreedom #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #religiousliberty #savethesenate #science #scotus #seaworld #syria #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teaparty #tgdn #thecove #thecycle #thehunt #tlot #tntweeters #topprog #tpot #tpp #truth #tweet4taiji #twisters #uniteblue #uppers #voteblue #votingmatters #wiunion #youpromiseduschange #ypg

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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