The pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong nosed out ISIS as the top topic in Cable News Twitter on Monday:
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Top 100 words for the day: 2014-09-29-WordStats
Top 100 hashtags for the day: 2014-09-29-TagStats
Monday was a typical pattern of The Kelly File for most mentions during a broadcast and Hannity for the most during the day. Runners up for best hour were The Ed Show, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and On the Record. Runners up for best day were The Five, Kelly, and CNNi.
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Raw CSV data for the day is here: 2014-09-29-ShowStats
Well this is different! CNN gets a clean sweep of the day Sunday with Parts Unknown getting the most mentions during an hour and CNN International getting the most throughout the day.
Following Parts Unknown was the 11am showing of The Melissa Harris-Perry Show, HBO’s Last Week Tonight, the 10am showing of MHP, and the 9am Up with Steve Kornacki:
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You can see all the data for the day below, or download the raw CSV data here: 2014-09-28-ShowStats
MSNBC’s live telecast of the Global Citizen Festival swept the day on Saturday, winning both the best hour and best day in Cable News Twitter. Fox News’ Cashin’ In came in second (normally it is first) for best hour and best day. When you look at the charts for the day, you can see how dominant the festival was:
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It will be interesting to see how well the Nielsen ratings match this burst in Twitter activity.
It’s also no surprise that the festival and its performers dominated the topics in Cable News Twitter as well.
Raw daily show stats (CSV file): 2014-09-27-ShowStats
The Kelly File won the best hour, followed by The Ed Show, Hannity, Maddow, and The Five. CNN International had the best day, followed by Hannity, Kelly, The Five, and Real Time w/ Bill Maher.
Except for one thing. More on that in a moment… First, the normal news …
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When you look at the chart, you can see that The Kelly File is in a tier by itself, followed by a second tier of The Ed Show, Hannity, and Rachael Maddow. After that, it’s a fairly continuous decline as you go lower int he rankings.
The one thing? More like one direction. The Daily Show ran a skit where they mentioned that a new terrorist group was being formed by various terrorist superstars including a member of One Direction. That pissed off the fans, who started using the hashtag #thedailyshowgonetoofar. If I had counted that too, the Daily Show would have “won” Friday hands down. At the time of this writing (about noon ET on Saturday), there have been over 200K tweets with that hashtag, more than all the “normal” tweets about Cable News yesterday across all networks.
I remember back when Piers Morgan was still on CNN he’d generate occasional 1D news, and the results would be massive. So, come on, who’s going to get with the direction?
Raw Show Stats (CSV download): 2014-09-26-ShowStats