Remarkably, it’s been a year since the infamous FBI letter about Jeffrey Epstein that triggered a torrent of TV news coverage ghoulishly seeking to tie President Trump to the billionaire sex criminal’s life of ruin. In that time, a Media Research Center analysis has found ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted a gargantuan 1,627 minutes across their flagship morning, evening, and Sunday morning political shows. Put another way, the “Big Three” have devoted an elephantine 27 hours and seven minutes since the FBI memo stated Epstein had died by suicide and there was hard evidence to a “client list.” Since our last update on the afternoon of December 22, they added an astonishing 594 minutes in only 197 days. t Broken down by time of the day, the morning shows blew out their evening and Sunday talk show counterparts with nearly 14 hours obsessing over Epstein (823 minutes) compared to almost nine hours for the evening newscasts (532 minutes) and four and a half hours on Sunday mornings (272 minutes) Disney-owned ABC remained in first place with a runaway tally of 673 minutes, or just over 11 hours. In second, NBC held steady in second place with a hefty 544 minutes (or a tick over nine hours) while CBS was significantly behind both of them at nearly seven hours or 410 minutes of airtime (410:15). Seeing as it’s such a massive and somewhat incomprehensible number, what could you do with 1,627 minutes? Here are some ideas. Watch Lord of the Rings extended edition twice: Clocking in at 682 minutes, you could watch the extended cut twice with time to spare to finish the first film (The Fellowship of the Ring) and the first 35 minutes of The Two Towers. Eat 105 Costco pizzas: In March 2025, the YouTuber Old Guy Eats consumed an 18-inch Costco pizza in 15 minutes and 36 seconds. Using that time, you could eat a bite or two shy of 105 pies while watching ABC, CBS, and NBC drone about Epstein. Run six marathons: Taking the average finish time of a marathon for men of four hours and 21 minutes (as per the shoemaker Brooks), one could hit play with the broadcast networks’ Epstein coverage and finish over six marathons with limited breaks.  Fly non-stop from NYC to Singapore: The world’s longest direct flight takes nearly 19 hours (1,135 minutes), so one could hit play on the Epstein coverage and still have more than six hours remaining upon landing. Fly from JFK to Australia: With connections, a flight from New York City to Sydney, Australia can take up to 22 hours, so even a herculean flight would be fall short of a year’s worth of Epstein coverage. Watch over 10 Major League Baseball (MLB) games: Based on a September 2025 article revealing the average game took two hours and 38 minutes, you could play over 10 games and up to three innings of an 11th game. Walk 88 miles: Addias wrote in an October 2023 blog post that the average adult walking speed is between 2.5 and four miles per hour, so let’s stick with the median number of 3.25. Breaking down each of the networks, each of ABC’s flagship newscasts — Good Morning America (GMA), World News Tonight, and This Week — took the top spot in their respective timeslots with GMA at just over 309 minutes (309:28), World News Tonight at 222 minutes (202:02), and This Week at 141 minutes (141:09). This Week co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos giddily boasted on February 1 that “[t]he Jeffrey Epstein case has bedeviled President Trump’s second term,” adding it “[led] to a rare break with Republican members of Congress and demand for full disclosure of the Epstein files” with “Epstein’s victims and key members of Congress say[ing] the government has not gone far enough.” ABC's George Stephanopoulos giddily boasted on February 1 that “[t]he Jeffrey Epstein case has bedeviled President Trump’s second term,” adding “Epstein’s victims and key members of Congress say[ing] the government has not gone far enough.” pic.twitter.com/97HmYYjHTO — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 8, 2026 “That massive release sparking new headlines by the hour. And the fallout and pain Jeffrey Epstein has caused his victims is playing out in realtime,” huffed chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas on the February 2 Good Morning America. Ten days later, Stephanopoulos huffed now-former Attorney General Pam Bondi “refused to apologize to Epstein victims” ahead of correspondent Rachel Scott lamenting a hearing Bondi appeared at “was a bitter and tense back and forth.” Going to NBC’s lead shows, Today actually finished in third place amongst the mornings shows with about 256 minutes (255:58) while Nightly News (257:53) and Meet the Press (104:10) were firmly in second place over CBS. “The slow, selected, and heavily redacted release of the Epstein files only has served to raise bipartisan suspicions about who the justice department may be protecting,” declared Sunday Today host Willie Geist back on March 8. Over on NBC, 'Sunday Today' host Willie Geist boasted on March 8 that “[t]he slow, selected, and heavily redacted release of the Epstein files only has served to raise bipartisan suspicions about who the justice department may be protecting,” pic.twitter.com/w05ZcFqm7E — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 8, 2026 Correspondent Melanie Zanona proclaimed moments later that even though “he’s been dead for more than six years...the tangled weapon convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein laid for the rich and powerful is only growing wider.” “Congressman Ro Khanna taking to the House floor to name names of rich and powerful men whose names were protected,” gushed NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles on February 11, an action to imply innocent people were Epstein accomplices with no legal recourse due to the Speech and Debate Clause. As mentioned, CBS Mornings eked out second in the AM race over Today with 258 minutes (257:53) while the other two shows — CBS Evening News and Face the Nation — were behind NBC and seemingly lightyears behind Trump-hating ABC at 126 minutes (126:02) and 26 minutes (26:20), respectively. Deploying a trademark line boasting of a scandal enveloping one of the adversaries, White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe boasted on the March 17 Evening News that “[t]his issue just simply won’t go away.” And CBS doled out on March 17 a classic liberal media trope to describe scandals *they* are foisting upon Republicans... “This issue just simply won’t go away.” pic.twitter.com/jRmq7ousEQ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 8, 2026 On the June 2 CBS Mornings, Norah O’Donnell spent part of what was supposed to be a book interview with Vice President JD Vance talking up the Epstein case, imploring he “commit” to “push[ing] to have” all government documents “made public, even if they are duplicates” because “other than Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, no one has been held accountable.” To offer two final examples illustrating the depths of their despair to wrap a colossal millstone around the President, at least one network newscast mentioned Epstein and/or Maxwell on 219 days over the last year. That worked out to an astounding 60 percent of days that saw at least a news brief about the infamous criminal And, in the 52 weeks encompassing July 7, 2025 through July 7, 2026, only one week went by with zero coverage and only one with less than a minute.