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MBC Radio’s “News High Kick,” hosted by Kwon Sun-pyo, finished first in weekday radio listenership in the second-quarter 2026 ratings survey.
Korea Research’s second-quarter survey found “News High Kick” captured a 13.7% share of weekday listeners. SBS’s “Escape at Two: The Cultwo Show” placed second with 8.6%, followed by SBS’s “Kim Young-chul’s Power FM” at 8.5% and MBC’s “Kim Jong-bae’s Focus” at 7.2%.
MBC Standard FM led all stations with a 23.8% channel share. SBS Power FM was second with 21.3%, while CBS Music FM and KBS 2FM each recorded 14.9%. MBC FM4U logged a 12.7% share.
The program has held the top spot for 13 consecutive quarters, tracing back to the second quarter of 2023 when attorney Shin Jang-sik served as host. It peaked at 17.5% in the third quarter of 2025, then eased to 16.8% in the fourth quarter of 2025 and 15.1% in the first quarter of 2026.
Anchor Kwon Sun-pyo said, “We don’t obsess over rankings. The production team strives to make a program with conviction, and that effort has produced positive results. We’ll stay alert on the air so ‘News High Kick’ can continue asking the right questions.”
An MBC Radio representative said, “We have maintained our position as a radio leader and again topped overall listenership in the first half of 2026. We plan to strengthen our channel competitiveness by expanding into digital areas while building on solid traditional radio content.”
The survey was carried out by Korea Research through computer-assisted telephone interviews over two weeks, from the 7th to the 20th of last month. It sampled 3,000 residents of Seoul and the greater metropolitan area, ages 15–69, who listen to radio at least five minutes a day. The margin of error is ±1.8 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
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