The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-07-26 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-07-27T05:34:21Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 13.3h · Fox News 13.5h · MS NOW 14.4h · BBC World Service 12.6h · POTUS Politics 14.0h

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
Trump administration considers Iran military options5 of 5 captured channels	221	38.4	68.9	53.2	20.5	39.9
Lucy Baines Johnson discusses public service legacy1 of 5 captured channels	96	—	—	—	—	96.2
Historical moral leaders and prisoners of conscience1 of 5 captured channels	88	—	—	—	—	87.5
Van attack at Berlin Pride Festival kills one4 of 5 captured channels	85	18.0	17.4	—	44.6	4.7
Ben Sasse pancreatic cancer life interview1 of 5 captured channels	65	65.2	—	—	—	—
Wildfires near Bordeaux trigger mass evacuations4 of 5 captured channels	64	16.5	2.5	—	44.5	0.4
Democrats launch 100-day campaign ahead of midterms3 of 5 captured channels	64	17.8	—	39.5	—	6.5
Democratic Socialist movement growing party influence3 of 5 captured channels	63	—	53.2	8.2	—	1.7
Troy Jackson Maine Democratic Senate nomination4 of 5 captured channels	57	5.9	22.3	19.8	—	9.2
Women's African Cup of Nations tournament expansion2 of 5 captured channels	51	—	—	—	48.3	2.3
Civilian Conservation Corps green jobs program1 of 5 captured channels	49	—	—	—	—	48.6
US China artificial intelligence competition dominance2 of 5 captured channels	46	45.2	0.9	—	—	—
Climate activists block highways protest action1 of 5 captured channels	40	—	—	—	40.2	—
US national gas prices exceed four dollars4 of 5 captured channels	40	3.9	8.9	9.3	—	17.4
US soldier killed in strike near Jordan base3 of 5 captured channels	37	0.4	4.8	—	—	32.1
Senate Republicans block SAVE Act election security bill2 of 5 captured channels	33	—	12.4	—	—	20.8
Steeplechase champion Jordy Beamish Olympic games interview1 of 5 captured channels	31	—	—	—	31.3	—
Trump administration policies impact domestic priorities1 of 5 captured channels	30	—	—	29.8	—	—
Iranian regime expansion and regional threats1 of 5 captured channels	28	—	27.8	—	—	—
South Sudan designates first UNESCO World Heritage Site1 of 5 captured channels	28	—	—	—	27.6	—

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-07-26: 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/2026-07-26.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.