Perry Sook vs. CBS

Sources tell FTVLive that CBS will decline running the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Tour on the CW stations that CBS owns.

That will become a problem for Nexstar CEO Perry Sook, who recently signed a deal with LIV Golf to air the tournaments on The CW.

Nexstar took control of The CW and signed a deal with the Saudi’s and the LIV Tour.

The Saudi’s agreed to pay Nexstar to carry their golf tournaments.

The problem is, CBS has had a decade long relationship with the PGA Tour and they don’t want to do anything that will strain that relationship.

Liv Golf has sued the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour has in turn countersued LIV.

CBS is not going to do anything that will cause harm to their relationship with the PGA and they will refuse to air the LIV Golf telecasts on The CW stations that they own.

This will put CBS in violation of their CW contract and that will give Perry Sook the option to pull the network affiliation from those CBS owned stations.

Sook will then look for other stations in the market in which he can award The CW affiliation.

LIV is paying Nexstar to air the LIV Tour on all CW networks. If CBS balks at airing the tour, which sources tell FTVLive they fully plan on doing, this will leave Sook and Nexstar scrambling to find other outlets.

Stay tuned as this could get really interesting, really fast.