Welcome to October! There are 84 shopping days until Christmas…
October started off as September ended, with The Kelly File winning its hour and Hannity winning Wednesday over all. Following Kelly for best hour was Greta, Hannity, Hayes, and Matthews, while following Hannity for best day was Greta, CNNi, Kelly, and Hayes.
To see what everyone was talking about, see this post.
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Raw CSV data for the day: 2014-10-01-ShowStats.csv
With the announcement of the Texas patient who tested positive for Ebola, Cable News Twitter naturally was consumed by discussion of the news:
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This pushed all other topics to the margin, including the ever popular ISIS…
Also interesting to note: Since Ebola is (mostly) non-political, the breaking news lifted CNN to the top network and put The Situation Room into the top 5 of Cable News shows on Twitter.
CSV data for the day: 2014-09-30-WordStats.csv 2014-09-30-TagStats.csv
September ended with the typical win for The Kelly File for best hour and Hannity for best day on Cable News Twitter. Following Kelly in best hour was Hannity, The Ed Show, CNN’s The Situation Room, and Maddow. Following Hannity for best day was Kelly, CNNi, Morning Joe, and Maddow.
Best Hour chart:
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Raw CSV data for the day: 2014-09-30-ShowStats.csv
The pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong nosed out ISIS as the top topic in Cable News Twitter on Monday:
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Top 100 words for the day: 2014-09-29-WordStats
Top 100 hashtags for the day: 2014-09-29-TagStats
Monday was a typical pattern of The Kelly File for most mentions during a broadcast and Hannity for the most during the day. Runners up for best hour were The Ed Show, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and On the Record. Runners up for best day were The Five, Kelly, and CNNi.
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Raw CSV data for the day is here: 2014-09-29-ShowStats