All in with Chris Hayes had the most mentions during a broadcast, but ongoing news about Bieber’s arrest in Florida drove E! News to the top spot for mentions throughout the day…
Cable News Trending Topics for Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-22
What’s happening all over? I’ll tell you what is happening all over.
Guys sitting home before the television set who used to be something of a rover.
That is what’s happening all over.
— Frank Loesser
Not a whole lot grabbed the attention of Cable News views on Wednesday, with no dominate theme showing up in the Twitter conversation. So much so that The Colbert Report got the most mentions during a broadcast on Wednesday, which is unusual for a couple of reasons. First, the show is not live, so there isn’t a feeling of a real-time conversation; you never see tweets on the Chyron like with more avant-garde shows. Second, the show is only a half-hour long, and so it has to have twice the intensity of mentions to compete with hour-long shows.
I guess it was just a slow news day…
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2114 | Comedy Central: The Colbert Report (11:30-12am) |
| Most Mentions During Day | 29372 | CNN: Piers Morgan Live |
See the companion post for detailed hour by hour, show by show results.
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Cable News Twitter Ratings for Wednesday, January 22, 2014 — Something new to (Colbert) Report!
An unusual win for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, which had the best hour of the day — all in a half-hour. Clearly the cold weather and lack of breaking news depressed talk about more traditional cable news shows. If you look at only more traditional cable news shows, MSNBC’s The Ed Show wins best hour.
Meanwhile, Piers Morgan continues to mix it up on Twitter, and as a result he has the most mentions during the day…
Chris Christie and Twitter: Tracking Public Interest in the Scandals
Depending upon what media outlet you follow, there has been ongoing news about NJ Governor Chris Christie and his problems with Fort Lee and Hoboken. But the political question everyone wants to answer is “how is this affecting him?” If we look on Twitter, the answer seems to be that while there was an initial burst of interest, things have almost quieted down:
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Clearly, in social media it’s a matter of wait-and-see. And so we wait for the investigations to take their course and to see what comes out of them …
Cable News Trending Topics for Tuesday, January 21 2014 — Megyn Kelly Files Past 600K
Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-01-21
Some days Twitter is very “meta”, and yesterday was one of them: Megyn Kelly had the best hour on Twitter with the most popular topic being how she was passing 600 thousand followers on Twitter. If you look at the word cloud of her mentions during the day, you can see that no other topic really dominated:
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Other than that, there was no dominant theme or topic for the day….
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 2580 | Fox News: The Kelly File |
| Most Mentions During Day | 26904 | CNN: Piers Morgan Live |
You can see the complete hour by hour, show by show ratings in the companion post.