There were two notable things that happened on Sunday:
- The premiere of “#MediaBuzz” on Fox News at 11am, up against CNN’s Reliable Sources. And MediaBuzz turned out to be worth of its name, scoring over 700 Twitter mentions for the day as compared to Reliable Sources 166.
- MSNBC sneaked in a repeat of “Advancing the Dream” without advancing the notice. Other than a few tweets from people connected with the show, the re-run didn’t show up in TV schedule listings, on the MSNBC website, or in any other form that I saw. As a result, while the show gained over 4000 mentions on Friday, the day of its live showing, it struggled to make 80 mentions during the second showing and a bit over 200 overall during the entire day. Clearly MSNBC under did the publicity for this repeat showing, and so few people were engaged or (we can surmise) watching.
Here are the overall Twitter mention counts for Cable News Shows:
Ratings for Weekends 6am
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | New Day | 18 | 351 |
| Fox News | Fox and Friends Weekend | 14 | 172 |
Ratings for Weekends 7am
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | New Day (to 7:30, Sun) | 20 | 351 |
| CNN | Sanjay Gupta MD (7:30 – 8) | 16 | 249 |
| Fox News | Fox and Friends Weekend | 45 | 172 |
| HLN | Weekend Express | 0 | 16 |
Ratings for Weekends 8am
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | New Day | 19 | 351 |
| Fox News | Fox and Friends Weekend | 27 | 172 |
| HLN | Weekend Express | 3 | 16 |
| MSNBC | Up w/Steve Kornacki | 815 | 2527 |
Ratings for Weekends 9am
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | State of the Union w/Candy Crowley | 188 | 558 |
| Fox News | Fox and Friends Weekend | 43 | 172 |
| HLN | Weekend Express | 2 | 16 |
| MSNBC | Up w/Steve Kornacki | 883 | 2527 |
Ratings for Weekends 10am
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | GPS w/Fareed Zakaria | 135 | 423 |
| Fox News | America’s News HQ | 29 | 206 |
| HLN | Weekend Express | 3 | 16 |
| MSNBC | Melissa Harris-Perry Show | 1254 | 3808 |
Ratings for Weekends 11am
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | Reliable Sources | 69 | 166 |
| Fox News | #MediaBuzz | 243 | 724 |
| HLN | Weekend Express | 2 | 16 |
| MSNBC | Melissa Harris-Perry Show | 1239 | 3808 |
Ratings for Weekends 12pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| Fox News | America’s News HQ | 34 | 206 |
| HLN | Weekend Express | 3 | 16 |
| MSNBC | Weekends w/Alex Witt | 33 | 206 |
Ratings for Weekends 1pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| Fox News | America’s News HQ | 62 | 206 |
| MSNBC | Weekends w/Alex Witt | 89 | 206 |
Ratings for Weekends 2pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | News Room | 5 | 63 |
| Fox News | Fox News Sunday | 195 | 2068 |
Ratings for Weekends 3pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| Fox News | America’s News HQ | 3 | 206 |
| MSNBC | MSNBC Live w/Craig Melvin | 18 | 115 |
Ratings for Weekends 4pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | News Room | 7 | 63 |
| Fox News | America’s News HQ | 1 | 206 |
| MSNBC | Disrupt w/Karen Finney | 316 | 445 |
Ratings for Weekends 5pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | News Room | 30 | 63 |
| Fox News | #MediaBuzz | 64 | 724 |
| MSNBC | Advancing The Dream (Repeat) | 44 | 237 |
Ratings for Weekends 6pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| CNN | News Room | 6 | 63 |
| Fox News | Fox News Sunday | 84 | 2068 |
| MSNBC | Advancing The Dream (Repeat) | 36 | 237 |
Ratings for Weekends 7pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| Fox News | Fox Report Weekend | 0 | 12 |
Ratings for Weekends 8pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| Fox News | Huckabee | 10 | 88 |
Ratings for Weekends 10pm
| Network | Show | Tweets Hour | Tweets Day |
| Fox News | Stossel | 19 | 47 |
For further discussion of how these stats are calculated, please see this blog post.