US cable news attention index
Vaccine on US cable news
Cable-news attention to vaccine peaked in December 2020 at 4.88% mean share of tracked news airtime across 9 networks (Jul 2009–Oct 2024). Mean share was 0.948% in the twelve months before that peak and 1.68% in the twelve months after, both below the peak month.
Counts follow the catalog query vaccine. This is that tracked term, not every wording of the idea.
Record
| Peak month | December 2020 |
|---|---|
| Peak share of airtime | 4.88% |
| Period covered | Jul 2009–Oct 2024; Oct 2024 partial |
| Highest-attention network | CNN |
| Source | GDELT TV / Internet Archive captions |
| Metric | Share of airtime (% of clips) |
| Data cutoff | October 2024 (partial) |
| Tracked query | vaccine |
Peak share is the highest monthly mean of GDELT percent-of-clips from Jul 2009 to Oct 2024. Each month averages the networks that had a caption count, equally weighted. Highest-attention network is the station with the largest attention index, the sum of scaled airtime counts over the archive. October 2024 is partial. No separate refresh date is stored.
Share of news airtime
Monthly mean across networks with a caption count. Hover a point for the month.
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Networks by share of attention
Share of vaccine airtime across networks
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Mean GDELT % of each network’s own news airtime · bars scaled to the top network
Related terms
Other indexed terms whose monthly mean share moved with this one (Pearson r at least 0.50). Co-movement is not topical similarity and not causation.
- pandemicr 0.84
- COVIDr 0.75
- Faucir 0.68
- cancel culturer 0.68