Thursday’s Cable News Twitter Winners: The Kelly File & Hannity

Thursday was a normal day of The Kelly File winning best hour and Hannity winning best day.

Top 30 Shows for 9/25

Top 30 Shows for 9/25

The top five for best hour were Kelly, Hannity, Ed Show, Daily Show, and Hayes.  The top five for best day were Hannity, Kelly, Daily Show, The Five, and Hayes.  The shows with top “reach” (see footnotes) were New Day, CNNi, Kelly, Hannity, Out Front, and CNN Town Hall.

The most “male” show (with over 100 tweets) was Fox Friends First, with 86% male tweets. The most “female” show was Dr. Drew, with 75% female mentions.

Raw CSV data for the day: 2014-09-25-WordStats

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Hannity takes Tuesday on Cable News Twitter

Hannity swept Tuesday with both best hour (2817 mentions) and best day (8515) wins.  Runners-up for best Hour were The Kelly File (2452) and The Ed Show (1748).  Runners-up for best day were The Kelly File (7379) and The Colbert Report (7296).

The most male-skewed show (that had over 100 mentions during the day) was HLN’s Morning Express, 75% male, while the most female skewed show was HLN’s Dr. Drew On Call at 78% female.  No wonder HLN struggles if it’s audience is so divided.

Four of the top ten hours were won by Fox News, while six were won by MSNBC.

Raw Data: 2014-09-23-ShowStats

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The Kelly File Starts the Week off Strong on Cable News Twitter

A strong day overall for The Kelly File as Megyn wins best hour and best day.  Hannity also had a strong day.  MSNBC had some shows that had reasonably good days: Morning Joe and All In with Chris Hayes both topped 3K mentions during the day.  CNN’s CNNi simulcast also brought in a large number of mentions, though many of those were probably from viewers outside the USA.

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