Observed arrival · 2026-09-26
The Program, measured in airtime
An interactive index searches archived US cable-news captions and charts how much airtime different terms received across nine networks from July 2009 to October 2024.
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- The attention index scales airtime shares by 10,000; equal-weighted network-month means underpin comparisons.
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The archive draws on GDELT TV and Internet Archive captions, and the site describes its primary measure as each station's share of news airtime matching a term. Network panels use their own y-scales, while comparisons use equal-weighted network-month rows. The methodology cautions that peaks and co-movement describe attention in the archive, not causation.
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