GDELT Summary supports either a basic visual dashboard that summarizes coverage matching your search, or a comparison visualization that compares up to four searches to make it easier to examine differences in how various topics are being covered in the media.

Step 3: Enter Search

Enter your search keywords below. You are searching the complete raw closed captioning stream of all news programming monitored by the Internet Archive's Television Archive. Closed captioning is searched as-is as provided by each station, meaning will always be some small amount of captioning error. The Archive has monitored more than 150 stations since 2009, but has not monitored all stations for the full time period. You should carefully check the start/stop monitoring dates for your stations of interest to ensure they were monitored during the full time period of interest. Advanced users with specific needs to precisely identify any monitoring disruptions should look for the normalization baseline link on the results page above the volume timeline display or can also download the inventory files for the given days. Only programming determined by the Internet Archive to be primarily "news" in nature is monitored - all other shows, such as purely comedy or entertainment programming are excluded.

Previous versions of the Television Explorer divided broadcasts into discrete sentences and reported the number of matching sentences, but the use of sentences was difficult for many users to conceptualize and integrate with other time-based measures. Thus, the new Television Explorer now uses airtime. Each broadcast is divided into a series of sequential 15 second clips and we display the percent of 15 second clips that matched your search. Thus, a 30 minute broadcast will be divided into 120 separate 15 second clips. Note that most commercials are not closed captioned and thus are excluded from searches and so most stations will have less than 5,760 clips per day. Searches for phrases that span the boundary between two clips are counted for the first clip, ensuring there is no double counting.

All words/phrases should be in the language of the station(s) you are searching (for example, to search Univision stations you should provide Spanish keywords/phrases). This means you must conduct separate searches if you wish to search across stations in different languages. Phrases should be enclosed in quote marks and are limited to a maximum of five words. If you include multiple words/phrases all of them will be required to appear somewhere in the 15 second clip for it to match. Only the exact keyword(s) entered are searched (searching for "russia" does NOT match "russian" or "russians"). You can perform limited boolean "OR" searches by enclosing a group of OR'd terms inside a set of parantheses - for example, to search for "syria" appearing near a set of russian-related terms you might search for "syria (russia OR russians OR russian OR kremlin OR putin)". You can also put a "-" in front of a given word or phrase to exclude articles that contain it.

You can also specify one or more keywords/phrases that must appear near your main keywords/phrases, but at a greater distance than an ordinary keyword. For example, you might want to see how often "emails" appeared near "clinton" on each station. If you search for "clinton email" you will get all clips that mention both terms in the same 15 second clip. This will miss cases where "clinton" appeared in one clip and "emails" appeared in the following clip. To allow for these kinds of "context" searches, you can add context:"yourkeyword" to search for a given keyword either in the same clip as your main keyword(s) or in the 15 second clips immediately before and after the matching clip. Thus, a search for clinton (context:"email" OR context:"emails" OR context:"server") would return all clips that contained "clinton" and which also contained either "email", "emails", or "server" either in the same clip or the immediately preceeding or following clip.

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