The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-08-28 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-08-29T04:12:58Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 16.3h · Fox News 16.9h · MS NOW 16.9h · BBC World Service 15.8h · POTUS Politics 17.0h

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
Nepal flooding and mudslide disaster4 of 5 captured channels	339	132.1	38.0	—	158.0	10.7
Lindsay Clancy murder trial jury deliberates4 of 5 captured channels	292	62.4	148.1	—	6.0	75.6
Trump Iran war costs exceed thirty seven billion4 of 5 captured channels	168	25.2	0.8	128.7	—	13.6
Democratic candidates distance from Hassan Piker2 of 5 captured channels	107	—	106.4	—	—	0.8
Dolly Parton legendary country singer dies4 of 5 captured channels	96	2.1	—	9.0	76.3	8.3
Tackle football youth safety health risks1 of 5 captured channels	95	—	—	—	—	94.7
March on Washington voting rights defense rally3 of 5 captured channels	90	—	3.1	84.3	—	2.8
Trump attempts to rename Great Lakes4 of 5 captured channels	59	21.7	2.6	19.4	—	15.0
Election denialism mail-in voting Pennsylvania impacts3 of 5 captured channels	52	1.2	—	35.9	—	14.8
Kirk Franklin gospel music artist career interview1 of 5 captured channels	52	—	—	—	51.5	—
Cinema industry soft power and tourism impact1 of 5 captured channels	48	—	—	—	47.8	—
Male grievance industry exploits social media1 of 5 captured channels	43	—	—	—	43.3	—
US Canada trade tensions tariffs announced5 of 5 captured channels	42	3.5	8.1	11.6	0.9	17.8
Federal court mail-in ballot handling legal dispute4 of 5 captured channels	42	3.4	6.4	1.5	—	30.6
Federal Reserve Chair Warsh inflation policy5 of 5 captured channels	38	7.3	4.7	4.6	13.8	7.8
US maintains pressure on Iran Operation Economic Outcast4 of 5 captured channels	38	—	17.0	10.3	4.0	6.3
Minnesota Texas ICE agent extradition dispute1 of 5 captured channels	37	—	—	—	—	36.8
Jewish settlers attacks West Bank escalate violence1 of 5 captured channels	34	—	—	—	34.4	—
Kennedy Center naming dispute and renovation lawsuit3 of 5 captured channels	34	2.3	—	6.9	—	24.5
Trump awards Artemis astronauts congressional medal4 of 5 captured channels	33	5.0	25.6	0.7	—	1.6

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-08-28: 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/2026-08-28.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.