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The Daily Box Score

Airtime, in minutes · broadcast day 2026-07-20 (America/New_York) · frozen 2026-07-21T04:50:52Z

Captured tape this day: CNN 12.7h · Fox News 12.1h · FOX News Headlines 24/7 0.5h · MS NOW (MSNBC) 12.7h · CNBC 0.4h · Fox Business 0.3h · Bloomberg Radio 0.5h · BBC World Service 1.5h · POTUS Politics 0.6h

Read this first — what a cell is, and what it is not

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 minCNNFox NewsFOX News Headlines 24/7MS NOW (MSNBC)CNBCFox BusinessBloomberg RadioBBC World ServicePOTUS Politics
US military deaths in Middle East escalation3 of 9 captured channels26390.178.594.6
US Iran conflict over Strait of Hormuz4 of 9 captured channels18672.340.466.66.8
ICE agency rhetoric linked to federal building violence3 of 9 captured channels9026.537.226.7
Explosive device thrown at FBI headquarters3 of 9 captured channels6341.920.10.7
Democratic candidates distance from DSA platform positions3 of 9 captured channels542.647.14.3
UK PM succession Starmer to Burnham transition4 of 9 captured channels507.734.11.76.1
Democratic concerns about midterm election competitiveness3 of 9 captured channels4711.311.324.8
Justice Department investigates reporter Qatar jet coverage1 of 9 captured channels4444.0
ICC issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu3 of 9 captured channels425.427.69.1
Air Force One aircraft security upgrades deployment2 of 9 captured channels4136.74.4
Pentagon transparency issues Iran military operations2 of 9 captured channels367.029.2
Democratic Party progressive wing internal tensions3 of 9 captured channels356.618.110.8
South Carolina Senate race Darlene Graham candidacy2 of 9 captured channels3232.10.3
Italy childhood obesity health crisis public health1 of 9 captured channels3231.9
Michigan Democratic Senate primary election campaign3 of 9 captured channels2814.63.89.9
ICE activist arrested for fireworks incident Manhattan3 of 9 captured channels286.515.26.5
FDA cyclospore contamination lettuce outbreak response3 of 9 captured channels2822.00.84.7
Tate brothers arrested in Miami on charges4 of 9 captured channels2612.44.94.54.1
Director Christopher Nolan discusses Odyssey film project1 of 9 captured channels2221.7
Trump removed from Spain World Cup trophy photograph3 of 9 captured channels221.70.918.9

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[OUTPUT] Daily Box Score, 2026-07-20: 20 story clusters standings-tabled as minutes of captured airtime per channel (9 channels above the 0.25h floor) — segmenter boundaries, SQL sums, frozen at day close, machine-readable at /boxscore/2026-07-20.json. Minutes of tape, never a verdict; a dash is an unobserved window, never a zero. probability mass ≠ 1.0.