Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 12 October to 18 October 2026
FTMQ Entertainment reads 2,681 headlines from 365 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first. This week is still running; the numbers are updated every hour.
- 1Peter Rice Replaces Bela Bajaria as Netflix Chief Content Officer
24 outlets · first: Variety, Thu 21:37 UTC · Top Stories
- 2Paramount to reopen long-closed Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades
5 outlets · first: Los Angeles Times Company Town, Tue 13:00 UTC · Industry & Business
- 3Steven Soderbergh joins The Batman Part II to assist director Matt Reeves
5 outlets · first: Deadline, Thu 22:16 UTC · Culture & Media
- 4Kelsey Grammer to star in NBC medical drama Pops
4 outlets · first: Deadline, Wed 22:07 UTC · TV & Streaming
- 5Anna Faris responds to Chuck Lorre comments about Mom casting
4 outlets · first: Deadline TV, Thu 23:38 UTC · Top Stories
- 6Judge dismisses child sexual abuse case against director Timothy Busfield
4 outlets · first: New York Times Arts, Fri 20:52 UTC · Top Stories
- 79-1-1 Nashville Season 2 Premieres on ABC with Ryan Phillippe
3 outlets · first: Decider, Thu 15:00 UTC · TV & Streaming
- 8Kevin Huvane Donates Project Angel Food Van in Memory of Father
3 outlets · first: Variety, Thu 16:04 UTC · Top Stories
- 9A24 Releases Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
3 outlets · first: NPR Arts, Fri 09:00 UTC · Top Stories
- 10Miley Cyrus Performs Live at Hollywood Bowl in Return to Stage
3 outlets · first: Variety, Sat 03:37 UTC · Top Stories
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- Variety3
- Deadline2
- Los Angeles Times Company Town1
- Deadline TV1
- New York Times Arts1
- Decider1
- NPR Arts1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- Variety232
- The Hollywood Reporter190
- Deadline168
- Deadline TV164
- Variety TV134
- TVLine125
- New York Times Arts106
- The Guardian Culture94
- BroadwayWorld93
- Decider83
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Source: FTMQ Entertainment coverage tracker, 12 October to 18 October 2026, https://entertainment.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-12
How it is counted: every report FTMQ Entertainment wrote that week is matched with the headlines from the outlets we follow that are about the same event (they share its names and its less common words), published within a day and a half of it. Aggregators that repeat other outlets’ headlines are not counted. Each outlet counts once per story; the first is the earliest such headline. Only outlets with feeds we read are counted, so this measures breadth of coverage, not every report there was.