Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho

Also known as: KMJS · Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho · One at Heart, Jessica Soho

Definition

Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS; English title rendered as “One at Heart, Jessica Soho”) is a Philippine television news magazine that premiered on GMA Network on November 7, 2004 and continues to air in the network’s Sunday-evening line-up — described by Wikipedia as “the longest running news magazine show in the Philippines.” The program is hosted by broadcast journalist Jessica Soho (profiled in this wiki’s Jessica Soho entry), produced by GMA Public Affairs, and presented in Tagalog, running roughly 60 to 90 minutes per episode; Wikidata records 645 episodes for the series. (Wikipedia, Wikidata)

The program’s magazine format mixes public-interest and investigative reports with features on current events, pop culture, food, celebrities, health, and trends, together with stories on urban legends, ghost stories, and supposed paranormal activities. (Wikipedia) Its commercial standing is documented in GMA Network’s own reporting: the program was the most-watched television show in the Philippines in 2024 — the year it marked two decades on the air — and again in 2025, with Nielsen TV Audience Measurement combined GMA–GTV people ratings of 14.3 percent (Total Philippines, 2024) and 12.8 percent (Total Philippines, 2025), and billions of online views in each year. (GMA News — 2024 ratings, GMA News — 2025 ratings)

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Also Known As

KMJS
Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho
One at Heart, Jessica Soho

Examples and Analogies

The Sunday magazine section on television: KMJS functions like a newspaper’s Sunday magazine — within one episode a corruption investigation sits beside a food feature and a ghost story — a breadth Wikipedia’s premise describes as events, pop culture, food, celebrities, health, and trends plus urban legends and supposed paranormal activity. (Wikipedia)
One host as the fixed point: where this wiki’s I-Witness entry documents a documentary anthology renewed through generations of hosts, KMJS is the opposite model — a single host, Jessica Soho, has been the program’s constant since November 7, 2004, with the format built around her credibility. (Wikipedia)
From broadcast to four-point-seven billion views: the program operates as a relay — a Sunday broadcast measured by Nielsen ratings passing its segments onward to Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube, where GMA counted 4.7 billion views in 2024 and again in 2025, and a digital following above 45 million as of January 2026. (GMA News — 2024 ratings, GMA News — 2025 ratings)
A franchise inside the franchise: the “Katakot-takot na Kurakot” corruption series — sixteen installments by 2025 — shows the magazine spawning its own sub-series; its sixteenth installment drew more than 90 million views, the program’s most-watched online segment of 2025. (GMA News — 2025 ratings)
“Gabi ng Lagim” as seasonal programming: the program’s Halloween franchise of horror and legend specials grew large enough to spin off a feature film, KMJS Gabi ng Lagim: The Movie, produced by GMA Pictures and GMA Public Affairs for 2025 release. (GMA News — 2024 ratings)

Usage Scenarios

1. Sunday-Evening Viewing

Filipino households watch the program in its Sunday 8:20 p.m. slot on GMA 7, with the episodes also livestreamed on the program’s official Facebook page and released as full episodes on the GMA Public Affairs YouTube channel. (GMA News — 2025 ratings)

2. Investigative and Public-Interest Reporting

The program carries accountability journalism — the “Katakot-takot na Kurakot” series on alleged corruption is its flagship investigative franchise — recognized internationally as a finalist at the 2024 AIBs (The Association for International Broadcasting) Awards in London. (GMA News — 2024 ratings)

3. Documenting Pop Culture, Food, and Folklore

The magazine’s feature side — food, trends, celebrity profiles, and urban legends including supposed paranormal activity — functions as a running popular-culture archive of two decades of Filipino everyday life. (Wikipedia)

4. Awards Benchmarking

Award bodies and program researchers cite KMJS as the Philippine news-magazine standard: Catholic Mass Media Awards Best News Magazine wins in 2007 and 2013 and a Hall of Fame award in 2020, repeated PMPC Star Awards for Best Magazine Show, and Asian Academy Creative Awards for Best Infotainment Program in 2020 (“Denmark Special”), 2021 (“Baby Switching”), and 2024 (“If Looks Could Kill”). (Wikipedia, GMA News — 2024 ratings)

5. Anniversary Retrospection

Milestone broadcasts such as the two-hour 20th-anniversary special “The First 20 Years of Taking Flight,” aired November 10, 2024, are used to review the program’s reporting history and its two-decade run as a ratings leader. (GMA News — 2025 ratings)

Strategies

Anchor the franchise in one host: keeping Soho — the country’s most decorated broadcast journalist, per the record in this wiki’s Jessica Soho entry — as the sole host for two decades makes the program’s credibility independent of format cycles. (Wikipedia)
Pair the hard with the light: mixing investigations with food, pop culture, and folklore broadens the Sunday audience beyond news viewers without surrendering the news-magazine identity. (Wikipedia)
Distribute through every pipe: the program treats the broadcast episode as raw material for Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and a podcast — the multiplatform strategy behind its billions of annual online views. (GMA News — 2025 ratings)
Build repeatable franchises: recurring series such as “Katakot-takot na Kurakot” and the annual “Gabi ng Lagim” specials convert one-off segments into appointment viewing and, eventually, a feature film. (GMA News — 2024 ratings)
Renew through anniversaries: the 20th-anniversary special restated the program’s claim as the country’s most-watched show at the moment of its longevity milestone, converting age into authority. (GMA News — 2025 ratings)

Security and Safety Measures

Field-risk discipline in disaster coverage: the program is credited among GMA’s Peabody-recognized coverage of Supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan), whose citation remarked that videographers’ storm-surge footage was “so close-up and intense that it’s a wonder the videographers survived” — a documented instance of the physical risk the program’s field crews accept. (Peabody Awards)
Fairness protocols for high-stakes interviews: when the host’s neutrality became a campaign issue around GMA’s 2022 presidential interviews, the network’s institutional defense — equal treatment of all invited candidates — is the documented editorial safeguard, a record this wiki’s Jessica Soho entry carries. (Wikipedia)
Care with the unexplained: the program’s standard descriptions frame paranormal segments as supposed paranormal activity — the qualifier that keeps legend coverage inside a news-magazine’s editorial language. (Wikipedia)
For researchers — attribute ratings claims: the program’s “most-watched” standing is documented by GMA Network’s own releases of Nielsen TV Audience Measurement data; encyclopedic use should carry the attribution and the measurement source, as this entry does. (GMA News — 2024 ratings, GMA News — 2025 ratings)
Care with living subjects: a program mixing investigative reporting with celebrity and human-interest features necessarily reports on living persons; the withdrawal from the 2021 Nas Academy course — announced by the program itself — is the documented case of reversing a project involving the host’s name. (Wikipedia)

Historical Context

KMJS premiered on GMA on November 7, 2004 — the same year Soho became the network’s Vice President for News, per the career record in this wiki’s Jessica Soho entry — and settled into the Sunday-evening slot it has held ever since. (Wikipedia) Its early awards record was built at the Catholic Mass Media Awards and the PMPC Star Awards through the 2007–2013 period, and the program was credited, alongside State of the Nation with Jessica Soho, 24 Oras, Saksi, and 24 Oras Weekend, in the Peabody Award presented to GMA Network for its 2013 coverage of Supertyphoon Yolanda. (Wikipedia, Peabody Awards)

The program’s second decade consolidated both its ratings and its digital position. GMA’s January 2025 release reported that KMJS marked its 20th year in 2024 as the country’s most-watched TV show — a combined GMA/GTV/Pinoy Hits people rating of 14.3 percent in Total Philippines, first place in Urban Philippines every month of the year, and 4.7 billion online views — and its January 2026 release reported a repeat in 2025: a combined GMA–GTV rating of 12.8 percent in Total Philippines and 14.4 percent in Urban Philippines, the number-one program nationwide for the second consecutive year. (GMA News — 2024 ratings, GMA News — 2025 ratings) The November 10, 2024 special “The First 20 Years of Taking Flight” marked the anniversary; 2025 — Soho’s fortieth year in broadcasting, by the network’s count — brought the Gabi ng Lagim feature-film spin-off and the podcast continuation. As of this entry’s October 2026 verification, the program remains on the air, still hosted by Soho. (GMA News — 2024 ratings, GMA News — 2025 ratings)

Challenges and Controversies

Superlative and Ratings Claims

The program’s standing as the longest-running Philippine news magazine and the country’s most-watched show rests on two different kinds of claims: the longevity superlative stated by Wikipedia, and the ratings leadership reported by GMA Network from Nielsen data. Both are documented but neither is independently audited; this entry carries both attributed to their sources. (Wikipedia, GMA News — 2024 ratings)

The News-and-Lagim Mix

A news magazine that runs corruption investigations beside ghost stories and supposed paranormal activity has a built-in identity tension — the blend that broadens the audience also invites the criticism that folklore segments dilute the journalism; Wikipedia’s premise description records the mix as the program’s defining format. (Wikipedia)

Host-Centered Controversies

The documented controversies attaching to the program have mostly attached to its host — the 2021 Nas Academy withdrawal announced by the program, and the 2022 dispute in which the Marcos camp called Soho “biased” before declining to join GMA’s presidential interviews — both recorded in this wiki’s Jessica Soho entry; the program itself continued through each without on-air interruption. (Wikipedia)

Succession and the Single-Host Model

Twenty years with one host documents the franchise’s strength and its structural exposure: the program’s identity is inseparable from Soho, and the succession question that this wiki’s I-Witness entry records as solved by staged roster renewal has no documented answer for KMJS. (Wikipedia)