The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-10-13 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-10-14T04:13:01Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 16.9h · Fox News 17.0h · MS NOW 17.0h · BBC World Service 16.6h · 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
Marlon James wins Booker Prize fiction award1 of 5 captured channels	166	—	—	—	165.9	—
Trump considers firing Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle5 of 5 captured channels	160	65.4	20.3	40.3	15.6	18.7
New White House press secretary Katie Zachariah debut5 of 5 captured channels	152	38.3	24.3	87.1	1.9	0.8
Data center development opposition midterm election issue3 of 5 captured channels	113	5.6	—	—	14.6	92.6
ICE shooting of immigrant in New York1 of 5 captured channels	107	—	—	—	—	107.1
Texas Senate race Talarico Paxton election4 of 5 captured channels	106	11.2	6.0	18.7	—	70.4
Campaign trail travel and election polling analysis5 of 5 captured channels	91	37.0	7.2	12.9	4.3	29.2
Federal investigation into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar4 of 5 captured channels	89	5.5	60.5	8.8	—	13.8
White House press secretary appointment and background4 of 5 captured channels	77	38.0	2.9	35.3	—	0.9
Trump campaigns in Alaska midterm elections4 of 5 captured channels	77	32.7	16.4	5.4	—	22.1
Republican campaign messaging and midterm strategy4 of 5 captured channels	74	23.2	13.7	35.4	—	1.5
Pope Leo diagnosed with lung cancer illness5 of 5 captured channels	72	31.2	3.5	7.2	17.6	12.5
Army major Nidal Hassan jihadist killer profile3 of 5 captured channels	62	5.6	5.8	—	—	50.5
Trump officials negotiate Russian oil deal4 of 5 captured channels	61	4.1	—	46.4	4.1	6.6
Elon Musk political spending midterm elections3 of 5 captured channels	46	0.2	—	2.1	—	43.9
Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabian airport infrastructure4 of 5 captured channels	46	—	27.5	1.7	10.2	6.7
Actress Selma Blair arrested after plane incident3 of 5 captured channels	42	13.7	25.1	—	—	3.5
George H.W. Bush 1988 points of light1 of 5 captured channels	42	—	—	—	—	41.9
NYPD detective stabbed multiple times in attack2 of 5 captured channels	40	—	39.1	—	—	0.9
Ukraine stabilizes front line against Russia3 of 5 captured channels	39	3.9	1.8	—	33.5	—

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-10-13: 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/2026-10-13.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.