The GDELT Project

BBC Tops Television News Coverage Of Covid-19

The chart shows the percentage of total airtime Jan. 1, 2020 through present that each channel in which the Covid-19 pandemic was verbally mentioned (this doesn't include press conferences, interviews and other airtime that focused on the pandemic but didn't mention it). In terms of explicit mentions, the BBC tops the field, followed by CNN, with Russia Today last by a noticeable margin.

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