The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-08-02 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-08-03T04:52:29Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 12.8h · Fox News 13.6h · MS NOW 13.7h · BBC World Service 12.8h · POTUS Politics 13.0h

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
Michigan Democratic Senate primary election contest4 of 5 captured channels	162	35.1	21.7	82.4	—	23.1
Trump Iran nuclear deal Strait Hormuz negotiations5 of 5 captured channels	136	8.0	63.3	26.7	20.1	18.0
Attorney General nomination Todd Blanche confirmation delayed4 of 5 captured channels	119	13.7	7.2	65.6	—	32.8
Trump cancels planned strikes against Iran5 of 5 captured channels	117	37.2	41.6	8.9	10.8	18.5
Washington wildfires spread near Spokane4 of 5 captured channels	92	65.6	22.4	—	0.5	3.7
DSA progressives debate Democratic Party membership4 of 5 captured channels	78	15.9	33.9	9.4	—	18.7
Michigan Democratic primary non-socialist candidates3 of 5 captured channels	77	33.1	22.9	21.3	—	—
AI data centers economic impact employment effects3 of 5 captured channels	65	—	11.9	34.0	—	19.5
Commonwealth Games athletics track and field events2 of 5 captured channels	62	5.7	—	—	56.6	—
Kasich interviews Leon Panetta political discussion1 of 5 captured channels	51	—	—	—	—	51.1
Artificial intelligence safety risks and concerns5 of 5 captured channels	49	2.4	9.8	23.4	1.6	12.1
Yellow fever history in New Orleans discussion1 of 5 captured channels	47	—	—	—	—	47.1
Louisiana investigates Anthony Fauci COVID response4 of 5 captured channels	47	0.4	26.0	6.0	—	14.5
RFK Junior nutrition program military reform initiatives2 of 5 captured channels	45	30.9	14.1	—	—	—
Crossing guard documents daily life Vermont1 of 5 captured channels	44	—	—	—	—	43.9
2024 midterm election polling and voter outlook3 of 5 captured channels	43	7.7	—	27.6	—	8.0
Parenting strategies during climate change crisis1 of 5 captured channels	42	—	—	—	42.5	—
Trump and McConnell disagreements over Senate agenda4 of 5 captured channels	37	21.8	2.7	11.9	—	0.8
Trump anti-weaponization fund compensation initiative3 of 5 captured channels	31	5.9	—	23.3	—	2.2
Ceuta migrant crossing deaths and rescue operations1 of 5 captured channels	31	—	—	—	30.8	—

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-08-02: 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/2026-08-02.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.