Experian Hitwise: Conan, Leno Continue to Joust; Hardball Overtakes The Last Word

Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor remained atop the Experian Hitwise rankings of cable-news-show Web sites for the week ending Feb. 5, and MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show finished second again, but MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews bumped network sibling The Last Word out of third place.

The top two late-night talk-show sites stayed the same for the third consecutive week — Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report — but the Jay Leno-Conan O’Brien controversy is still being played out on the Hitwise charts, as TBS’ Conan replaced NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in third place, reversing the previous week’s result.

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