Piers Morgan and conversation about sports dominated the trending topics in cable news on Saturday…
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 1407 | MSNBC: Melissa Harris-Perry Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 82546 | CNN: Piers Morgan Live |
For Saturday’s complete hour-by-hour, show-by-show ratings, see this post.
MSNBC’s scheduled was truncated by the Olympics — no Up with Steve Kornacki, and a half-hour trimmed off of the Melissa Harris-Perry show. And the action on Twitter shows this, with the best hour being Melissa Harris-Perry’s 11 am hour, which garnered only 1400 mentions.
The world of sports, however, drove Piers Morgan’s day over the top, with 82K mentions. And that’s with an attempt to filter out tweets about Arsenal; in total, Piers received almost 150K mentions yesterday. (As a side note, it’s clear that I cannot tease apart the tweets about Piers’ sporting interests and his show, so I’m abandoning that now).
No real dominating topic for the day, but the winter Olympics made its presence known with the high ranking of #goteamusa and “sochi”.
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2236 | MSNBC: The Ed Show |
| Most Mentions During Day | 12564 | E: E! News |
For detailed hour by hour, day by day ratings, see this post.
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| CNN | 27179 | 19763 | 516816121 | 63 % | 37 % |
| MSNBC | 25850 | 11935 | 104635732 | 54 % | 46 % |
| Fox News | 24896 | 13353 | 103254174 | 63 % | 37 % |
| E | 12564 | 7866 | 68732120 | 18 % | 82 % |
| Comedy Central | 10877 | 9805 | 18650809 | 62 % | 38 % |
| Al Jazeera | 3071 | 2138 | 13949927 | 59 % | 41 % |
| HBO | 2809 | 1729 | 12552320 | 55 % | 45 % |
| HLN | 1960 | 1271 | 10687709 | 47 % | 53 % |
| Hashtag | Count |
| #tcot | 5385 |
| #lnyhbt | 4121 |
| #hottieoftheweek | 2975 |
| #goteamusa | 2968 |
| #p2 | 2860 |
| #teaparty | 2552 |
| #thecycle | 1880 |
| #uniteblue | 1673 |
| #edshow | 1477 |
| #ccot | 1452 |
| #2a #5things #ac360 #aca #atthishour #babyjonas #badaftershows #benghazi #blackfish #breakingnews #bridgegate #c2gthr #ccot #cnn #dailyshow #discoverhaven #edshow #efollowspree #ff #flipadistrict #forrestgump #foxnews #freezertot #gop #gored #goteamusa #greta #hannity #hardball #haven #haven5 #hottieoftheweek #inners #iran #irs #jayleno #joebiden #jordandavis #kellyfile #keystonexl #koch #kxl #lgbt #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #meangirlsreunion #midnightmemories #morningjoe #msnbc #neonlightstour #nerdland #newday #news #nokxl #nra #nsa #nyfw #obama #obamacare #ocra #olympics #olympics2014 #openingceremony #orpuw #p2 #pitchperfect2 #pjnet #politicsnation #putin #realtime #redeye #renewui #robford #sgp #sochi #sochi2014 #sochiproblems #spoileralert #syfy #syria #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teamusa #teaparty #tgdn #thecycle #thefive #thelead #thexfactor #tlot #tonightshow #turkeybrothersbosnia #uglycuntvulture #uniteblue #uppers #war #wearethepeople #wiunion |
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Friday was an “E” day, with The Ed Show getting the most mentions during an hour and E! News getting the most mentions during the day.
I’m not sure why Fox News dumped “The Five” into Hannity’s slot on Friday, but it got pretty badly beat by Realtime with Bill Maher….