The Kelly File won the best hour, followed by The Ed Show, Hannity, Maddow, and The Five. CNN International had the best day, followed by Hannity, Kelly, The Five, and Real Time w/ Bill Maher.
Except for one thing. More on that in a moment… First, the normal news …
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When you look at the chart, you can see that The Kelly File is in a tier by itself, followed by a second tier of The Ed Show, Hannity, and Rachael Maddow. After that, it’s a fairly continuous decline as you go lower int he rankings.
The one thing? More like one direction. The Daily Show ran a skit where they mentioned that a new terrorist group was being formed by various terrorist superstars including a member of One Direction. That pissed off the fans, who started using the hashtag #thedailyshowgonetoofar. If I had counted that too, the Daily Show would have “won” Friday hands down. At the time of this writing (about noon ET on Saturday), there have been over 200K tweets with that hashtag, more than all the “normal” tweets about Cable News yesterday across all networks.
I remember back when Piers Morgan was still on CNN he’d generate occasional 1D news, and the results would be massive. So, come on, who’s going to get with the direction?
Raw Show Stats (CSV download): 2014-09-26-ShowStats
