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The capture record

When the desk was listening · as of 2026-09-05 06:22 UTC · no session open at build time (at build)

Every count the desk publishes from the airwaves is a count of captured tape, not of a network’s full air. This page is the attendance record behind that caveat: for each channel, which UTC hours actually have evidence on file — transcribed spoken lines or ingested chyrons. An hour counts as covered only if the record exists; that the recorder was merely running is annotation, not coverage. Per-second capture instrumentation began 2026-07-15; nothing before that date is claimed. Capture interruptions are labeled by kind only — the raw capture log stays internal.

Ledger incomplete: 7,326 transcribed lines sit outside every logged session — early capture ran before per-session bookkeeping was airtight. Those hours still render as covered (the evidence exists); the session ledger under-reports them.

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Fox News

1239 evidence hours · 868.9 captured hours across 875 sessions (not continuous) · 963,677 spoken lines · 43,658 chyrons

CNN

1241 evidence hours · 841.4 captured hours across 1164 sessions (not continuous) · 921,470 spoken lines · 49,300 chyrons

MS NOW

1241 evidence hours · 854.8 captured hours across 1040 sessions (not continuous) · 920,168 spoken lines · 47,523 chyrons

POTUS Politics

818 evidence hours · 781.9 captured hours across 788 sessions (not continuous) · 789,068 spoken lines · 0 chyrons

BBC World Service

1240 evidence hours · 792.8 captured hours across 594 sessions (not continuous) · 654,909 spoken lines · 46,925 chyrons

FOX News Headlines 24/7

2 evidence hours · 0.7 captured hours across 13 sessions (not continuous) · 798 spoken lines · 0 chyrons

Bloomberg Radio

3 evidence hours · 1.5 captured hours across 92 sessions (not continuous) · 601 spoken lines · 0 chyrons

CNBC

1 evidence hour · 1.4 captured hours across 91 sessions (not continuous) · 580 spoken lines · 0 chyrons

Fox Business

1 evidence hour · 0.7 captured hours across 93 sessions (not continuous) · 296 spoken lines · 0 chyrons

[OUTPUT] Capture record: 9 channels with evidence on file, hour-gridded in UTC — covered means transcribed lines or chyrons exist for the hour, nothing more. Session and gap rows annotate; they never count. The ledger is machine-readable at /coverage.json. A record of attendance, not a claim of completeness. probability mass ≠ 1.0.