The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-07-25 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-07-26T05:03:30Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 13.4h · Fox News 13.8h · MS NOW 14.2h · BBC World Service 12.8h · POTUS Politics 13.7h

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

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.
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.
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.
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 min	CNN	Fox News	MS NOW	BBC World Service	POTUS Politics
Maine Senate race Democratic nomination4 of 5 captured channels	307	34.7	41.1	220.2	—	10.8
US military strikes on Iran tensions escalate4 of 5 captured channels	164	48.4	46.2	49.4	—	19.5
Live Aid concert music charity event1 of 5 captured channels	109	108.6	—	—	—	—
Lucy Baines Johnson family legacy discussion1 of 5 captured channels	104	—	—	—	—	103.8
Palestinian patients medical care Israel crossing1 of 5 captured channels	98	—	—	—	98.3	—
Wildfires spread across Spain and France4 of 5 captured channels	97	16.7	4.6	—	71.4	3.9
Trump attends rescheduled correspondents dinner5 of 5 captured channels	90	12.0	28.8	42.5	4.1	3.0
Pastor Ezra Jin detained China religious crackdown1 of 5 captured channels	70	—	—	—	—	70.1
Supreme Court independence debate and reform1 of 5 captured channels	66	—	—	—	—	66.3
Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2024 coverage1 of 5 captured channels	61	—	—	—	61.1	—
New Deal environmental conservation program analysis1 of 5 captured channels	59	—	—	—	—	58.9
Middle East disinformation truth broadcasting networks1 of 5 captured channels	54	—	—	—	—	54.0
Political polarization divisiveness American society3 of 5 captured channels	51	—	8.3	30.5	—	12.1
India education minister resigns amid protests1 of 5 captured channels	51	—	—	—	50.8	—
New Jersey voter registration error with non-citizens3 of 5 captured channels	47	5.6	16.5	—	—	25.1
Democratic midterm strategy and socialist messaging2 of 5 captured channels	36	—	33.1	—	—	2.5
Iran conflict refugee crisis humanitarian concerns3 of 5 captured channels	35	9.9	9.0	—	—	16.5
US military fires on Iran blockade breach4 of 5 captured channels	35	9.1	20.1	5.2	—	0.7
Fusion centers informal government data sharing practices1 of 5 captured channels	35	—	—	34.6	—	—
US Israel bombing campaign Iran escalation4 of 5 captured channels	33	—	0.1	10.7	0.2	22.2

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-07-25: 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/2026-07-25.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.