LIV Golf will broadcast on FS1

Only golf broadcast worse than NBC is Fox.

Shocking that it's Fox

FWIW this is good news.

Maybe they will bring back that skank Holly Sonders...

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And for some perspective for the detractors:


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For historical perspective, the Ryder Cup was a "time buy" on ABC until 1989 when USA Network paid $250K for broadcast rights. After that week, NBC paid millions for the next 5 cup matches. Everything has to start somewhere.

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I don't know if I would compare having to buy time in a content soaked 2022 to doing so in 1989. Networks are dying for content and you cant sell a golf tournament?

Also they will have to continue to pay and produce the events, along with selling their own ad time. They are basically agreeing to the same model infomercials get.

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The boomers will not be happy about this.

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Nah, it will be like CNN, nobody watches it.

I always said LIV has the right to exist. But they need to build their own product and forget trying to sue and get even with the Tour.

The World ranking and the Majors are their own entities and they will decide to allow LIV Players or not.

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The NBA Finals were also shown on tape delay.

Comparing live sports rights when there were 5 channels vs today is ridiculous. Live sports rights are the hottest thing going right now. Them basically having an infomercial for their product is not an ideal situation.

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Yep, this is a whole different set of circumstances for LIV than it was back in 1989. The fact they couldn't get any network to give them a deal is surprising. They have to pay to be on the network and produce their own tournament. I would figure they would just stay on YouTube for a few years to let it build that way and then maybe by then a network would come calling.

If LIV didn't have a pile of money to burn, they would have folded already.

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If LIV didn't have a pile of money to burn, they would have folded already

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Well yeah, that's kind of how startups work

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Most startups don’t require BILLIONS to keep being burned.

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Yes they do. A couple billion really isn't that much. Look at every tech company in the last 20 years

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So you think MOST startups require billions in dollars to be spent?

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Depends how you define startup, but yes, absolutely, it's not up for debate. Several billion usually.

Any operation as big as LIV is going to raise and spend billions of dollars

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You throw this around a lot.

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Because it's a fact.

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Five-hundred million dollars. That’s the reported amount that Vince McMahon is investing into the league on his own. The funds are projected to be spent over the course of 3 years.

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A report was released recently that The AAF is hoping to raise 850 million dollars in funds over the course of their first 5 years.

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And those are lean minor league operations that didn't have enough cash to survive.

Uber become profitable last year

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WHOOP has more than 500 employees with over 225 new hires in the past 12 months, and has raised approximately $400 million to date.

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Whoop is still in the infancy of startup stage.


These big business cost a shite ton of money to get off the ground and you aren't going to be cash flow positive for years on years. Acting like this is exclusive to LIV is just false. That doesn't mean LIV is going to survive, but dropping a couple of billion on a sports league isn't outrageous at all.