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…
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…
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,…
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!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
'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…
"We/Us" Versus "I/Me" On BBC Radio 4 FM 2016-2020
How often does radio news talk about "me" versus "we"? Using data from the Internet Archive's Radio News Archives via the Radio…
Comparing "I/We" On Television Versus Radio News
Earlier this year we looked at ingroup/outgroup discourse on television news, looking at the density of pronouns across the major…
News Media Bias And Why Its Poorly Understood
This interesting analysis by Kent Kroeger looks at media tone and coverage of Trump vs Biden in the 2020 election….
Comparing BBC Television & Radio News Attention Towards COVID-19 Across 2020
This past September we compared the percentage of daily spoken words across BBC News London (TV), BBC World Service and…
Using FFMPEG To Measure Audio Levels On Television News
What audio levels do television news channels use? There are long-established standards for television production, but what levels are observed…
Using FFMPEG's BlackDetect & ShowSpectrumPic To Coarsely Align Closed Captioning Through Audio Analysis
Closed captioning in television news programming typically lags the actual spoken word content it transcribes by several seconds as the…
Using FFMPEG's Scene Detection To Generate A Visual Shot Summary Of Television News
The first step in breaking a television news broadcast down into "stories" is to segment it into distinct visual "scenes"….
Using FFMPEG's "BlackDetect" Filter To Identify Commercial Blocks
A common methodology for detecting commercials in television news is to scan for the tell-tale "fade to black" used to…
A Vision For A Multidisciplinary Covid-19 Communication & Behavioral Research Initiative And Incubator To Combat Misinformation
What might it look like to construct a research initiative and incubator that would support collaborative multidisciplinary multimodal research into…
Understanding Television News Through Onscreen Text OCR
While much of the work on television news has focused on speech recognition and caption search, through the Visual Global…