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Lawyers representing LIV Golf alleged in a court filing that London-based PGA Tour exec worked to thwart television deals.

Pascal, the managing director of PGA Tour International UK and senior VP of international media, is scheduled to be deposed on Monday in London, although the PGA Tour has sought a remote deposition. Pascal is a foundational witness whose testimony will inform later discovery in important ways.” “Based on [PGA] Tour documents and other sources, LIV believes Mr.

New court filings find that LIV Golf is claiming that a PGA Tour executive used "illegale means" to squash any potential TV deals.

[Front Office Sports](https://frontofficesports.com/liv-golf-alleges-pga-tour-exec-used-illegal-means-to-kill-tv-deals/), the court documents alleging that the PGA Tour interfered with LIV Golf acquiring a TV deal were filed in federal court late Wednesday night. Pascal is a foundational witness whose testimony will inform later discovery in important ways.” “Based on [PGA] Tour documents and other sources, LIV believes Mr.

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The league has since agreed to a TV deal with The CW in the United States. LIV attorneys claim his effort were the reason why the league did not have a TV deal in 2022. “Based on [PGA] Tour documents and other sources, LIV believes Mr.

Documents submitted Wednesday include a LIV Golf accusation that the PGA Tour intervened in its dealings with potential broadcast networks.

[signed a multi-year revenue-sharing TV deal](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2023/01/19/liv-golf-news-tv-broadcast-deal-the-cw-network/) with LIV in January. "Based on (PGA Tour) documents and other sources, LIV believes Mr. Pascal is a foundational witness whose testimony will inform later discovery in important ways." [Golfweek](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/) was first to [report LIV was nearing a deal](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/09/27/liv-golf-fox-sports-buy-time-to-air-tournaments/) with Fox Sports last September. More from the filing: "Time and again, after the live meeting or phone call, the broadcaster did an about-face and informed LIV the negotiations (in one case, a signed contract) could not proceed. [PGA Tour](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/category/professional/pga-tour/) executive has led to some new allegations in the ongoing legal battle between the Tour and [LIV Golf](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/category/liv-golf/).

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However, it is unlikely the media partner in question is Fox, as the tour has no relationship with the entity in question. LIV Golf is also believed to be paying for productions fees. The network being referred to is the CW Network, LIV’s only US media partner. In the filings, no evidence was produced that supported LIV’s claim, and the broadcaster in question is not named. “Time and again, after the live meeting or phone call, the broadcaster did an about face and informed LIV the negotiations (in one case, a signed contract) could not proceed. Documents submitted late Wednesday night in the US District Court that were made available on Thursday morning, US time, concern the deposition of PGA Tour executive Thierry Pascal, who is the managing director for the tour’s international media division.

LIV Golf argued that the breakaway circuit was unable to sign a domestic broadcast rights deal in the United States in 2022.

LIV also claimed that after meeting with Pascal “time and again … More telling than Van Keulen’s ruling is where LIV’s attorneys appear to be heading in the discovery process. The dispute centered on when Thierry Pascal, the senior vice president international media for PGA Tour International, would submit to be deposed by LIV Golf attorneys.