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NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka dies at 86

Rank
Running: 19h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: +161%
Outlets: 9
Regions: 4
Countries: 7
Languages: 3

CBS News United States · English 9 Oct, 15:26 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · +1 language

Read at CBS News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: CBS News, 9 Oct, 15:26 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Independent.
Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 9 Oct, 15:26 UTC.
Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

56%22%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Americas 5 outlets · 3 countries · 56%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%

First movers

CBS News 9 Oct, 15:26 UTC
The Independent +18m
ABC News +38m
NBC News +2h 20m
Infobae +2h 35m

Latest arrivals

Cyprus Mail 10 Oct, 08:46 UTC
Punch 9 Oct, 20:20 UTC
Liberty Times 9 Oct, 19:45 UTC
Jamaica Observer 9 Oct, 19:25 UTC
Infobae 9 Oct, 18:01 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Nigeria. Americas 3: Argentina, Jamaica, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Taiwan. Europe 2: Cyprus, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article CBS News, 9 Oct 2026, 15:26 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 08:46 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 1.68, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

9 Oct 2026 99 6.47 8 6 8 6 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 15:40 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 08:46 UTC

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Cyprus Mail Cyprus 10 Oct, 08:46 UTC
NFL legend Mike Ditka dies at 86
Infobae Argentina 9 Oct, 23:51 UTC
Murió a los 86 años Mike Ditka, el hombre que llevó a los Chicago Bears a su único Super Bowl
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- Muere Mike Ditka a los 86 años, legendario entrenador de los Chicago Bears 9 Oct, 18:01 UTC
CBS News United States 9 Oct, 23:47 UTC
A look at NFL legend Mike Ditka's legacy after his death at 86
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- Mike Ditka, who led Chicago Bears to only Super Bowl title, dies at 86 9 Oct, 17:27 UTC
- Mike Ditka, former Chicago Bears head coach, dies at 86 9 Oct, 15:26 UTC
NBC News United States 9 Oct, 23:29 UTC
NFL Hall of Fame coach Mike Ditka dead at 86
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- Remembering Mike Ditka's life and legacy 9 Oct, 17:46 UTC
Punch Nigeria 9 Oct, 20:20 UTC
NFL legend Mike Ditka dies at 86
Liberty Times Taiwan 9 Oct, 19:45 UTC
NFL名人堂傳奇迪特卡86歲逝世家人、球隊同悼念
Jamaica Observer Jamaica 9 Oct, 19:25 UTC
NFL legend Mike Ditka dead at 86
ABC News United States 9 Oct, 16:04 UTC
Mike Ditka, legendary NFL player and coach, dies at 86
The Independent United Kingdom 9 Oct, 15:45 UTC
Mike Ditka, the quintessential Chicago Bear, dies at 86