[Exclusive]The last episode of "The Greatest Baseball" will air on February 2nd..The legal response to "fireball" continues

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"The Greatest Baseball" will end with the broadcast on the 2nd of next month. After the reorganization period, we plan to decide whether to produce a new season or not.

As a result of star news coverage on the 9th, JTBC baseball entertainment program "The Greatest Baseball" is scheduled to end with 136 episodes on February 2. It was decided to end the season ahead of the broadcast of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, which will open on February 6. JTBC has secured the right to broadcast the Winter Olympics exclusively in Korea.

It is still undecided whether the new season will be organized or not. It's experiencing an ups and downs in ratings. A JTBC official told Star News, "The 2025 season was initially decided to end earlier this year," adding, "It is not a procedure to abolish it, but it has not been decided whether to reorganize it or continue it in the future." He added, "The fact that 'if we go into maintenance, we don't know how long it will take, so we may not be able to continue the scheduled schedule' has already been shared with the players."

"The Greatest Baseball" is a real sports entertainment program in which retired professional baseball players form a team together to challenge baseball again. Since its first broadcast in June 2022, it has been broadcasting for more than two years, forming a solid enthusiast. However, Studio C1, an outsourced production company that was in charge of production, withdrew from the "strongest baseball" after a conflict with JTBC and launched the "fireball" with existing cast members such as Lee Dae-ho, Park Yong-taek, and Jung Geun-woo.

Since then, JTBC has reorganized its program with new casts and producers, and returned to a new season in September last year. As part of the team's reorganization, it tried to make changes, such as appointing 'baseball legend' Lee Jong-beom as its new commander and changing the team name to 'Breakers', but it struggled in terms of ratings.

The 'strongest baseball' is currently facing the 'strongest series', the final of the 'strongest cup competition'. The Breakers are expected to end the game with the "strongest series" opponent, the independent league national team.

Meanwhile, JTBC plans to continue its legal action against Studio C1, apart from the end of the "strongest baseball."

The conflict between the two sides has erupted since early last year. JTBC claimed that Studio C1 charged excessive production costs and did not disclose financial records, while Studio C1 countered that it was structurally impossible to charge excessive production costs.

JTBC filed a criminal complaint against Studio C1 and producer Jang Si-won on charges of violating copyright law and trademark law and breach of duty, and also filed an injunction to ban copyright infringement and unfair competition activities to ban the production, sale, and distribution of "fireball." The court ruled in favor of JTBC in December last year. The court decided to ban the production of "fireball" and the disclosure of related content, saying, "The act of producing and transmitting "fireball," which contains content that implies that it is actually the follow-up season of "the strongest baseball," constitutes an act of unfair competition under Article 2, No. 1 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act."

In response, Studio C1 countered that some of the claims were not accepted, and later attempted to release the contents, but eventually deleted the main video. JTBC has made it clear that it will take additional legal action immediately if the new season of "fireball" is released in the future. He also warned, "Even after the decision to dispose of the provisional disposition, the act of stealing the law, such as disclosing consecutive rounds, will be subject to strict legal judgment in the main lawsuit."

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