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Torneos y Competencias
Torneos y Competencias (TyC) is an Argentine sports communications firm created by Paraguayan businessman Carlos Avila. It is an important force in the world of Argentine sports, with interests in publications and radio and TV broadcasting.
TyC started its activities in the Argentine media in 1982, with a golf program. Since then it produced and aired successful programs in open television such as El deporte y el hombre, Tenis de Primera, Futbol de Primera and La Magia de la NBA; the most successful of them being the weekly Futbol de Primera, which summarizes each day of competition in the Argentine first division. Fox Soccer Channel in the United States airs Futbol de Primera with English voiceovers by its own announcers.
Torneos y Competencias currently operates two cable TV channels TyC Sports and TyC Max. It also produces most sport shows for the South American version of the United States channel Fox Sports. Including the airing of Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, Formula 1 and many others
Argentine football and monopoly
In 1992 TyC signed an agreement with the Argentine Football Association for the exclusive transmission of Argentine football (soccer) matches. All the official matches are available on the TyC Sports and TyC Max cable channels.
Many people, such as the journalist Victor Hugo Morales, disagrees with the agreement, they say it is a monopoly.
TyC also bought the rights for the transmission of the matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup from Germany, but reached an agreement with several open-air channels to broadcast the matches of the Argentina national football team.
Owners
The company, with over 20 years of existence, belongs to Liberty Argentina, Inc, a subsidiary of Liberty Media International, Inc (LMI) (40%), ACH Acquisitions Co. (20%), Telefonica de Contenidos S.A. Unipersonal (20%), A y N Argentina LLC. (20%).
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