The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-08-03 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-08-04T04:57:28Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 13.4h · Fox News 14.1h · MS NOW 13.8h · BBC World Service 13.0h · POTUS Politics 14.1h

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
Trump pauses Iran military action amid nuclear negotiations5 of 5 captured channels	209	34.8	64.5	54.2	24.2	31.3
Congressman Max Miller domestic abuse allegations3 of 5 captured channels	131	73.3	—	38.2	—	19.5
Trump reflecting pool vandalism dispute3 of 5 captured channels	115	38.6	—	23.2	—	53.1
2026 midterm election Democratic momentum gains4 of 5 captured channels	115	11.7	23.7	0.9	—	78.4
Todd Blanche attorney general nomination vote5 of 5 captured channels	108	35.0	4.2	46.5	2.4	20.3
RFK Jr COVID vaccine misinformation fact-checking4 of 5 captured channels	108	9.2	29.9	47.9	—	20.9
Wildfires in Spokane Washington region4 of 5 captured channels	95	69.9	8.3	3.0	—	14.2
Michigan Democratic primary election Abdul El-Sayed4 of 5 captured channels	86	43.1	5.2	24.9	—	12.3
Five states hold primaries with socialist candidates4 of 5 captured channels	77	6.7	40.5	21.5	—	8.2
Janine Pirro dismissal decision controversy3 of 5 captured channels	65	22.9	—	1.7	—	40.5
Trump appointee terminates anti-weaponization fund initiative4 of 5 captured channels	62	50.5	0.7	1.1	—	10.2
Transgender athletes participation in women's sports1 of 5 captured channels	60	—	59.8	—	—	—
Trump DOJ alleged targeting of political opponents2 of 5 captured channels	56	—	—	3.2	—	52.4
Women entering male-dominated construction industry2 of 5 captured channels	54	—	1.9	—	52.1	—
Yellow fever disease history New Orleans epidemics1 of 5 captured channels	51	—	—	—	—	51.0
Missile strike kills children at Iranian school1 of 5 captured channels	50	—	—	—	49.6	—
Trump DOJ settles IRS lawsuit tax immunity4 of 5 captured channels	48	14.6	2.6	22.3	—	8.4
Democratic Socialists consider AOC presidential endorsement3 of 5 captured channels	46	12.7	27.5	—	—	6.3
International slavery reparations United Nations discussions1 of 5 captured channels	46	—	—	—	46.3	—
Annie Jacobson biological warfare scenario book1 of 5 captured channels	42	—	—	—	—	41.6

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-08-03: 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/2026-08-03.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.