Up with Steve Kornacki won the best hour on Saturday, with Hannity having the best day overall.
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Cable News Twitter Ratings for Friday, July 18, 2014 — Anderson Cooper & Bill Maher
Anderson Cooper won the best hour on Friday, no doubt to CNN’s coverage of the plane crash in Ukraine. Bill Maher won the day overall, based upon his discussion of the situation in Gaza. What’s interesting is that the plane crash is (at this point) mostly a non-partisan, fact based issue, the Gaza discussion is very politically charged. And so the middle-ground network, CNN, dominates the plane crash conversation while partisan shows (like Bill Maher’s) dominate the conversation about Gaza.
Cable News Twitter Ratings for July 17, 2014: CNN and Ukraine
The ratings for Thursday are probably somewhat inaccurate owing to the unscheduled coverage of the MH17 crash. The trending topics report showed that CNN dominated the conversation overall, as one might expect. So take these numbers with a grain of salt: the Kelly file had the best hour while the Colbert Report had the best day overall.
Cable News Twitter Ratings for Wednesday, July 16, 2014 — FFTW – Fox for the win
Another win for The Kelly File and Hannity — this is becoming the new normal in cable news Twitter.
Some other observations: while Rachel Maddow was off last night and that affected her engagement, even when she’s in the chair she almost always loses to Megyn Kelly in their time slot. Unfortunately, the show almost never promotes its social media presence on air, which not doubt is a large factor in its poor engagement. It is ironic that Fox News is turning into a much more social media savvy organization while MSNBC’s top show seems so inept.
Cable News Twitter Ratings for Tuesday, July 15, 2014 – Fox News shows its strengths
Hannity and The Kelly File grabbed Best Day and Best Hour once again. What’s interesting is that the Kelly File has really shifted into high gear and is consistently getting great engagement on Social Media.
Tuesday represented the second day of José Díaz-Balart’s new show on MSNBC and, not too surprisingly, his engagement dropped from his opening day. Nonetheless, it remains respectable for a mid-day show. We’ll see what level he settles out during the day.
I also notice that MSNBC has put its crime programming into the 3am and 4am hours. That seems like a mistake as it presents an opportunity to showcase some of its dayside properties to people who might never be able to see them.