We’re back with our final Media Bias Chart® release for October — the chart focusing on TV/video sources. This chart includes network and cable TV news shows, YouTube channels, video podcasts and documentaries. And for the first time, we’ve also added town halls.

You’ll see two town halls on this chart: “Shutdown America: A CNN Town Hall With Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – October 15, 2025,” and “NewsNation: Cuomo Town Hall Live from the Kennedy Center – October 15, 2025.” Both were recently broadcast in response to current political gridlock in Washington, D.C., and debate about immigration enforcement throughout the U.S.

The format of town halls is to encourage questions from the general public and those in the attendance. Politicians are on hand to answer those questions, and one or more journalists are there to act as moderators. 

As with all news sources, we rate the actual content that is presented for reliability and bias. For TV and audio programs, that often includes one or more hosts and guests and all the things each of them say. If a guest or interviewee dominates the discussion, the bias and reliability of the overall episode will be made up mostly of the bias and reliability of what the guest says. That’s how we rate town halls.

The recent town halls rated by our team received remarkably different bias and reliability scores, as you can see in the chart image. The CNN town hall is in the lower left, in the “hyper-partisan left” category of bias and “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” category of reliability. The NewsNation town hall scored much higher, with a bias score of “middle/balanced” and a reliability score of “analysis.”

It’s easy to understand why these town halls received very different scores when you look at who appeared on the panels. At the CNN town hall, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both Democrats, were on hand to answer questions. It’s no surprise that the content analyzed by our team reflected opinions from the political left. Analysts noted that Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez did not directly answer the questions they were asked, and they inaccurately described statements by Republican leaders such as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, leading to the reliability rating of “unfair persuasion.”

The NewsNation town hall, however, included representatives from both sides of the political aisle: members of the Trump administration, GOP and Democratic elected officials, and political commentators. Our analysts found the content from this town hall more balanced, reflecting various viewpoints on the debated issues.

The two town halls are among 44 sources on the October Media Bias Chart® for TV/video. We’ve rated more than 800 shows in total, but it’s impossible to display them all in one image — the source logos overlap each other, and the result is a completely unreadable chart — so we choose a sample to feature each month. In order to make the logos as large and readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Thirteen shows appear in the green box of the October chart. Remember: Sources rated as minimally biased and fact-based are found within the green box. (More TV/video sources fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.)

• ABC: Good Morning America
• ABC: Nightline
• C-SPAN Live Stream
• CNN: Fareed Zakaria GPS
• CNN: The Arena with Kasie Hunt
• EWTN: EWTN News Nightly
• Fox News: Special Report w/ Bret Baier
• i24: The Rundown
• NBC News NOW: NBC News Daily With Morgan Radford and Vicky Nguyen
• NewsNation: Cuomo Town Hall Live from the Kennedy Center – October 15, 2025
• PBS News Weekend
• PBS: Frontline
• The Weather Channel: America’s Morning Headquarters

Eight sources appear on the Media Bias Chart® this month for the first time:

• Black Conservative Perspective (YouTube)
• Candace Owens: Becoming Brigitte
• Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
• MSNBC: The Weeknight
• NewsNation: Cuomo Town Hall Live from the Kennedy Center – October 15, 2025
• NTD: Good Morning with Stefania Cox & Cary Dunst
• Shutdown America: A CNN Town Hall With Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – October 15, 2025
• The Weather Channel: America’s Morning Headquarters

Don’t see your favorite show on the October chart? You can look up ratings on all sources we’ve analyzed and create custom chart images using our free mobile app available for Apple and Android. You also can access the free version of the interactive chart on the website, which allows access to data on 250 of our top sources. Daily search limits apply.

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