Cable News Trending Topics for Saturday, January 25, 2014: CNN Dominates with Coverage of Columbia Mall Shooting

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-25

Mike Huck-a-who? After dominating Twitter on Friday, Mike Huckabee quickly faded as the outrage-du-jour and was replaced by brisk conversation about the Columbia mall shooting.  There were over 6000 tweets that mentioned the shooting, and over 5000 of them referenced CNN — in fact the vast majority of them were either retweets of CNN or quotes of CNN’s breaking news tweets.

The is a small validation of the general rule that when it comes to actual breaking news, CNN is the network of choice for people.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2335 MSNBC: Melissa Harris-Perry Show
Most Mentions During Day 13686 CNN: Piers Morgan Live

You can see how all the shows did yesterday in this companion post.

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Cable News Twitter Ratings for Saturday, January 25, 2014 — Melissa Harris-Perry Shows Up The Rest

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Par for the course, the Melissa Harris-Perry show had the most mentions in an hour on Saturday in her second hour.  The morning block on MSNBC from 8am ET to noon represents the vast majority of the activity on Twitter for all shows, and demonstrates the quality and depth of content MSNBC puts out for the early risers.

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Trending Topics in Cable News for Friday, January 24, 2014 — Huckabee Can’t Control My Libido Edition

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On Friday, #cantcontrolmylibido became one of the top trending hashtags in the Cable News Twitterverse, as the fall out from Mike Huckabee’s comments hit social media.  By and large, it was driven by the massive retweets of sarcastic comments, such as “@Cosmopolitan: Skipping a meeting to read Fifty Shades under my desk. @GovMikeHuckabee #CantControlMyLibido” and “RT @emmajune: When the nude scene in your VHS of Titanic is all scratchy from rewinding #cantcontrolmylibido @GovMikeHuckabee”.  Technically speaking, they weren’t talking about a Cable News show, since Huckabee’s comments were made outside of his show, but that’s Twitter for you — the guy is a cable news show unto himself, and got over 1900 mentions on Friday.   I’m sure his timeline is spinning…

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2115 MSNBC: All In w/ Chris Hayes
Most Mentions During Day 23786 CNN: Piers Morgan Live

You can see the hour by hour, show by show ratings in the companion post.

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Cable News Trending Topics for Thursday, January 23 2014 — Bieber Fever!

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-23

Although Chris Hayes had the most mentions during a broadcast hour on Thursday, Justin Bieber was the dominate topic of conversation.  As a result, E! News, which normally spikes high whenever something about One Direction happens, got a huge bump during the day.  You can see in the gender breakdown that 76% of E! News mentioners on Twitter are female, which is no surprise given Justin Bieber was the topic of conversation.

This is also seen in the tag cloud (#freebieber is the 5th most popular hashtag) and word cloud (Justin is the most popular word) for the day.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2203 MSNBC: All In w/ Chris Hayes
Most Mentions During Day 16188 E: E! News

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 67129 52283 333069009 56 % 44 %
Fox News 30680 17143 145622639 61 % 39 %
MSNBC 30142 12071 150783448 53 % 47 %
E 16188 12793 52365007 24 % 76 %
Comedy Central 8090 6993 22154246 58 % 42 %
HLN 4639 2937 28760128 43 % 57 %
Al Jazeera 4310 2979 19118638 58 % 42 %
HBO 1760 1437 4598713 70 % 30 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#tcot 4189
#lnyhbt 2788
#inners 2365
#maddow 2076
#freebieber 1822
#edshow 1442
#p2 1429
#tgdn 1204
#teaparty 1186
#bieber 1114

Tag Cloud across all shows

#2a #5things #ac360 #ac360later #alec #alltimehigh #asksnowden #backstageexpress #benghazi #bieber #breaking #bridgegate #c2gthr #ccot #chillout #christie #cnn #crossfire #ctl #dailyshow #deportbieber #desperation #dickpicproductivity #dolphin #edshow #exclusive #facebook #foxnews #freebieber #freejustinbieber #freethe7 #gop #goteamusa #grammys #hannity #hardball #helpcovedolphins #hottieoftheweek #huckabee #idol #inners #investingirls #iran #justiceforbenghazi4 #justinbieber #kellyfile #lastword #libcrib #lnyhbt #lufthansa #maddow #marchforlife #mata #morningjoe #msnbc #mutts #nasri #newday #news #nra #nsa #obama #obamacare #ocra #opinions #p2 #pjnet #politicsnation #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #sea #slaughter #snowden #sotu #sotuis #syria #taiji #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #theimposter #thelead #tlot #tpp #tvd #tweet4taiji #tylerdoohan #ukraine #unbeliebable #unclesugar #uniteblue #uppers #vanpursestrings #war #waronwomen #webelieb #werenotsodif

 

Word Cloud across all shows

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