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Covid-19's Early Warning Channels: Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business Added To Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Dataset

Business news channels like Bloomberg News were among the very first television news outlets in the United States to sound…

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Announcing The Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Modified TTXT Dataset

Expanding our new Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Captioning Time dataset, we're particularly interested in understanding the landscape of closed captioning…

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Telemundo & Univision Added To Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Dataset

Given their importance in understanding the Spanish-language television news narrative of the past decade and especially their insights into Spanish-language…

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A Revised Look At Advertising Versus Uncaptioned Television News Airtime Using The Advertising Airtime Dataset 2009-2020

Earlier this week we looked at advertising versus uncaptioned airtime on television news using our massive new Television News Advertising Inventory…

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Video: Trump Versus Biden: Comparing Television News Mentions

A look at how Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been covered on television news. Read The Full Article.

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Research At Archives Scale: A 1.5PB Streaming Video Analysis

We mentioned earlier this month how our latest collaboration with the Internet Archive has been saturating the Archive's 10GbE research…

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New Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Modified TTXT Format Coming Soon

Expanding our new Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Captioning Time dataset, we're particularly interested in understanding the landscape of closed captioning…

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A Deeper Dive Into Uncaptioned Television News Airtime

Diving deeper into the question of what is driving the high levels of uncaptioned airtime in the 2009-2013 era, we…

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American Greatness: 'Dr.' Jill Biden, You Insist?

American Greatness syndicated Kalev's RealClearWire story on television news usage of "Dr. Biden." Read The Full Article.  

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Using The Advertising Airtime Dataset To Explain 2009's Uncaptioned Airtime Trends

What explains the large percentage of uncaptioned television news airtime in 2009 that skews our commercial airtime analyses? Using the…

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Advertising Versus Uncaptioned Television News Airtime Using The Advertising Airtime Dataset 2009-2020

UPDATE: A new version of this analysis is available. Earlier today we offered a first glimpse at some of the…

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An Early Look At Television News Advertising Airtime Trends 2009-2020

Update (12/27/2020): A deep dive explanation on these trends is now available. Using our massive new Television News Advertising Inventory…

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Boko Haram Kidnapping Receives Little US TV News Attention Vs Six Years Ago While International Outlets Emphasize Group

The kidnapping of more than 300 schoolboys in Nigeria by Boko Haram earlier this month received widespread media coverage except, it seems,…

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Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Live Updates Coming Soon

Live updates to our new Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) dataset should be coming in the next several days!…

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Trump Versus Biden: Comparing Television News Mentions

The timeline below shows the total daily airtime (smoothed using a 7-day rolling average) across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…

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Announcing The Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Captioning Time Dataset

We are tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the new Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) dataset for television news…

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Vaccine Coverage On Television News Decreases

The timeline below shows the total seconds of daily airtime across BBC News, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News in which…

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Mask Mentions On Television News At Low Point Since End Of October

The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime mentioning masks across BBC News London, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…

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Fauci Has Been Mentioned On CNN 163 Hours This Year

The graph below shows the total seconds of airtime thus far this year in which Anthony Fauci's name has appeared…

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Social Distancing Mentions Fade On Television News Post-Election

The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime mentioning social distancing across BBC News London, CNN, MSNBC and Fox…

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The Center Square: Op-Ed: Dr. Jill Biden? Critics Of Op-Ed Often Omitted The Title

The Center Square syndicated Kalev's RealClearWire story on television news usage of "Dr. Biden." Read The Full Article.

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Television News Coverage Of Black Lives Matter Fades

The timeline below shows the percentage of weekly airtime mentioning Black Lives Matter across BBC News London, CNN, MSNBC and…

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Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Coming This Week

Earlier this month we announced that we would be releasing a massive dataset precisely cataloging all of the advertising airtime…

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'Dr.' Jill Biden? Critics of Op-Ed Often Omitted the Title

A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal sparked a heated debate over the use of the title “Dr.” by…