MBC Newsdesk
MBC Newsdesk is the main nightly newscast of the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, airing every night at 19:55 KST, making it the first news programme to start 5 minutes earlier than JTBC's JTBC News Room and SBS's SBS 8 News and an hour and 5 minutes earlier than KBS 1TV's KBS News 9.
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History
The newscast first premiered on October 5, 1970 at the timeslot of 22:00 KST. It was initially named MBC 뉴우스 데스크 due to the orthography at the time.
It was renamed to MBC News Park in 1976 moving at the time to 21:00, then reverting to MBC Newsdesk in 1980. It also got a new theme, using one part of FNN's news theme and one part of Isao Tomita's Jupiter.
In 1991, MBC Newsdesk got a new theme, composed by Lim Taek-Su.
On 5 November 2012, the newscast moved to 19:55 KST (20:00 not counting the starting ad break), and is now competing with SBS 8 News. Following the change to MBC's new headquarters on August 4, 2014, MBC Newsdesk changed radically, dropping the latest remix of Lim Taek-Su's composition.
Broadcast times
Current Anchors
- Lee Sang-hyun (Weekdays)
- Bae Hyun-jin (Weekdays)
- Park Sang-kwon (Weekends)
- Lee Jeong-min (Weekends)
Former Anchors
- Ohm Ki-Young (October 9, 1989 – November 8, 1996; January 1, 2002 – February 29, 2008)
- Rhee In-Yong (November 11, 1996 – October 27, 2000 (as a main weekday presenter); August 4–8, 2003 (as a relief presenter)
- Gwon Jae-Hong (November 16, 1996 – May 7, 2000; October 30, 2000 – December 31, 2001; May 17, 2010 – November 18, 2013)
- Kim Ju-Ha (October 30, 2000 – March 3, 2006; March 17, 2007 – March 24, 2008)
