The week in review
Week 30 · 20–26 July 2026
The week at a glance
Totals across every analysed broadcast this week.
Broadcasts analysed
108
Topics covered
188
Busiest day
The week’s superlatives
Deterministic awards computed from the week’s coverage — every claim carries its receipt.
Most divergent channel
Its agenda overlapped least with the other channels — only BBC NEWS put World Cup and US-Saudi among its top stories.
Closest channel pair
Channel 5 & Channel 4
They ran the week’s closest agendas (92% similar), both leading with Andy Burnham and Wildfires.
Biggest blind spot
BBC Two never covered “Wildfires” all week — 182 min across 7 channels.
Most contested quote
“If you look at the OBR document published last November, what's called the Economic and Fiscal Outlook, it's very clear no specific savings had been identified to pay for digital ID cards, so you cannot use them to fund this tax cut, and it means this policy has basically already unravelled.”
Vanished fastest
Zelensky sacks defense minister, protests in Kyiv
Peaked at 24 min on Wednesday 22 July 2026, then never mentioned again that week.