The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-07-31 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-08-01T04:02:29Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 12.7h · Fox News 13.6h · MS NOW 13.7h · BBC World Service 12.8h · POTUS Politics 13.2h

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
Dr. Fauci testimony legal implications contempt Congress4 of 5 captured channels	198	5.0	12.0	1.2	—	179.6
Spain deploys troops to Ceuta migrant crisis4 of 5 captured channels	176	15.6	48.5	—	104.6	7.2
Republican senators block Blanche AG nomination4 of 5 captured channels	118	54.9	0.4	18.7	—	44.5
Trump claims Hamas Gaza disarmament deal reached5 of 5 captured channels	116	11.7	17.3	16.3	64.9	5.7
Nancy Guthrie disappearance Tucson Arizona six months4 of 5 captured channels	89	42.9	32.9	—	1.6	11.6
Trump administration unclear on Iran retaliation policy4 of 5 captured channels	68	20.7	13.7	8.1	—	26.0
Democratic party identity and progressive strategy debate3 of 5 captured channels	68	9.1	57.8	—	—	1.3
Federal investigators probe water system cyber attacks4 of 5 captured channels	64	27.5	18.3	12.4	—	5.6
Michigan Democratic primary Abdul El-Sayed progressive4 of 5 captured channels	63	11.2	28.0	0.2	—	24.0
Trump discusses economic record policy achievements3 of 5 captured channels	61	17.5	18.9	24.7	—	—
Trump administration election security system rebuild3 of 5 captured channels	61	8.7	—	10.6	—	41.4
Rastafari movement Ethiopian history Haile Selassie1 of 5 captured channels	52	—	—	—	51.9	—
Fauci COVID diaries released revealing personal conduct2 of 5 captured channels	52	—	4.1	—	—	47.7
Genetic embryo screening technology gains popularity in reproduction1 of 5 captured channels	49	—	—	—	49.3	—
Trump Hamas disarmament deal announcement5 of 5 captured channels	46	22.4	11.0	3.0	1.9	7.6
Renewable energy founder discusses climate urgency1 of 5 captured channels	44	—	—	—	44.4	—
Democrats attack Trump corruption allegations2 of 5 captured channels	44	—	—	32.1	—	12.2
Trump administration cabinet meeting Camp David4 of 5 captured channels	44	25.2	9.3	2.5	—	6.8
Democratic Socialists organizing expand political influence4 of 5 captured channels	43	8.4	7.8	24.8	—	2.0
Criminal charges dropped Olympic canoeist reflecting pool4 of 5 captured channels	38	23.6	1.6	12.0	—	1.1

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-07-31: 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/2026-07-31.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.