The Cable News Schedules were a bit of a mess on Christmas eve, with a variety of programs being replaced by pre-recorded content or the normal hosts away and guest hosts filling in. For that reason, the stats for the day are fairly questionable.
That being said, MSNBC’s Live (just general news programming) had the most mentions during an hour and Hannity had the most mentions during the day as a whole.
Raw data for the day: 2014-12-24-ShowStats.csv
As we slip into Christmas, a lot of shows have guest hosts, which makes a mess out of computing the ratings for the shows. So take these numbers with a grain of salt…
Van Susteren had the best hour overall, while Sean Hannity had the best day. Following Greta was Chris Hayes, Morning Joe, O’Reilly (with Eric Bolling as guest host), and Hannity.
Raw data: 2014-12-23-ShowStats.csv
Merry Christmas, everyone!
One thing I’ve noticed lately is that conservatives love to talk about The Reverend Al Sharpton. After a while, it started to amaze me, mostly because I don’t particularly view him as relevant. It’s no different when liberals obsess about Sarah Palin, to be fair. She’s not particularly relevant to any actual politics. I guess everybody needs a bogeyman.
I finally decided to find out how much people tweeting about the various cable news networks mention Al. For the month of December, through the end of 12/23, here are the counts:
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That’s right: Fox News tweeple talk about Al Sharpton more than MSNBC’s tweeps. I guess they just can’t quit Al.
It’s the start of Christmas week on Cable News, full of guest hosts and pre-taped “specials”. But Monday got off to a strong start, with Hannity winning the day overall and The Kelly File winning best hour.
Raw data: 2014-12-22-ShowStats.csv
Sunday was a stronger day than Saturday for The Melissa Harris-Perry Show (with guest host Dorian Warren), as it topped the Cable News Twitter charts with best hour (at 11am). Following MHP was CNN’s State of the Union, Fox’s Judge Jeanine, the 10am hour of MHP, and Up with Steve Kornacki:
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You can see that Warren did substantially better than any other show yesterday, and the numbers were impressive for a guest host on a holiday weekend. (The MHP Show garnered less than 1000 mentions in the 11am hour a week ago and about 3000 mentions two weeks ago, putting Warren’s showing on the higher side).
Raw data for the day: 2014-12-21-ShowStats.csv and 2014-12-21 Schedule.csv