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The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-07-21 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-07-22T04:10:14Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 13.8h · Fox News 14.2h · MS NOW 14.1h · BBC World Service 13.3h · POTUS Politics 14.1h

Read this first — what a cell is, and what it is not

  1. A cell is minutes of airtime a channel spent inside one story cluster — a SQL sum over story boundaries drawn by the desk’s machine segmenter. Row labels are the segmenter’s own labels, not quotations from anyone.
  2. Every minute is a minute of captured tape, not of a network’s full air. A dash (—) means not observed in the windows the desk captured — never “zero minutes aired.” The desk cannot see what it did not record.
  3. Channels are uneven by tape length (hours stated above). More minutes can mean more tape, not more emphasis; no cross-channel ranking should be read into a single day.
  4. This day’s numbers are frozen: the page renders from a write-once snapshot taken when the broadcast day closed, and later re-processing can never quietly change it.

Full method: the Method. The record behind the denominator: the capture record.

story cluster (segmenter label)total minCNNFox NewsMS NOWBBC World ServicePOTUS Politics
South Carolina Senate seat special appointment2 of 5 captured channels245.419.0
US Iran military tensions soldier deaths4 of 5 captured channels195.93.35.83.8
US midterm elections polling and voter turnout1 of 5 captured channels1716.9
US policy denaturalizing naturalized citizens1 of 5 captured channels88.2
CPAC UK conservative conference Britain inaugural1 of 5 captured channels76.8
Indonesia convicts 19 in baby trafficking ring1 of 5 captured channels44.3
Major League Soccer growing American fanbase1 of 5 captured channels43.9
Andy Burnham becomes Britain's new Prime Minister1 of 5 captured channels43.5
Israel military withdrawal Lebanon Hezbollah1 of 5 captured channels33.4
Lebanon Israel peace negotiations Trump administration2 of 5 captured channels30.22.6
Trent Park House opens as World War II museum1 of 5 captured channels32.7
Tate brothers extradition legal challenge UK1 of 5 captured channels22.5
Democratic Party economic policy strategy1 of 5 captured channels21.8
Global news briefs multiple regions1 of 5 captured channels21.5
Indian man convicted Singapore diamond theft1 of 5 captured channels11.0
Trump administration investigates security leaks FBI1 of 5 captured channels10.7
US tariffs on Canadian products announced2 of 5 captured channels10.50.3
Tate brothers extradition legal challenge UK1 of 5 captured channels10.7
Iran missile strikes on Middle East targets1 of 5 captured channels10.6
Ebola outbreak spreads Democratic Republic Congo1 of 5 captured channels10.6

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-07-21: 20 story clusters standings-tabled as minutes of captured airtime per channel (5 channels above the 0.25h floor) — segmenter boundaries, SQL sums, frozen at day close, machine-readable at /boxscore/2026-07-21.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.