MBC Compiles News in Arrest...Let's see if the ratings will be strong again
Jan 15, 2025
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According to MBC's schedule, MBC's daily drama 'Kind Sunju Mr.', which was scheduled to air at 7:05 p.m. on the 15th, will be closed on the same day. Instead, 'Special MBC News Desk' will be organized.
However, new forms of news are not featured. An MBC official explained that the program was organized like this as the MBC News Desk was extended.
In addition, MBC canceled a large number of other programs that day. It was replaced with 'live this morning' which will be broadcasted from 8:30 a.m. on the same day with 'MBC News Special Report'.
This seems to have been a large-scale organization of news by MBC regarding the issue of the arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol. MBC, which aired 'MBC News Special Report' from 4:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., aired the noon news again 'MBC News Special Report' from 12 p.m.
From 1:30 p.m. to 3:55 p.m., 'Special 2 o'clock News Exhibition' was broadcast, and from 5 p.m., 'MBC News Special Report' will be broadcast again. Then 'Special MBC News Desk' will be broadcast on the spot of 'Kind Seonju Mr.'.
Considering the simple schedule, MBC will broadcast the news for about 15 hours and 25 minutes.
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On the 14th, when the impeachment motion of President Yoon was passed, it recorded 10.6%, boasting the highest figure among the main news programs of terrestrial and general programming broadcast on the same day.
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Hong Won-sik, a professor of liberal arts at Dongduk Women's University who serves as a member of the audience committee at the MBC Business Center in Sangam on December 18 last year, said, `I would like to express my encouragement and gratitude as a viewer to everyone at MBC's press headquarters who has been continuing faithful reporting since the announcement of martial law, even though MBC can be a priority target.'
"As MBC News Desk's ratings show after the declaration of martial law, concerns about the national crisis and anxiety about the political situation in a chaotic situation are further raising public expectations for MBC, which has not surrendered to the pressure of the regime."
Meanwhile, the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Agency arrested President Yoon on charges of rebellion and other charges at his official residence in Hannam-dong, Yongsan, Seoul, at 10:33 a.m. on the 15th. It is the first time in constitutional history that an incumbent president has been arrested by an investigative agency 43 days after the 'December 3 emergency martial law incident' occurred. The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit plans to directly investigate President Yoon and seek an arrest warrant within 48 hours, the deadline for his arrest.
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