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Torneos y Competencias


Torneos y Competencias is an Argentine sports communications firm created by Paraguayan businessman Carlos Avila, who has left the company. It is an important force in the world of Argentine sports, with interests in publications and radio and TV broadcasting.

History and Shareholders

TyC started its activities in the Argentine media in 1982, with a golf program. Since then it produced and aired successful programs in network 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.

TyC current shareholders are: DirecTV Latin America (33.2%), the former Chief Executive Officer of CableVision (Argentina) Fred Vierra (26.53%), Luis Nofal Sports Holding SA , and the American investment firm DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (16.7%).

Presence in the Media

Torneos y Competencias and the Clarin Group currently operate 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 One and many others.

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.

Argentine Football and Monopoly

In 1992 the company Television Satelital Codificada signed an agreement with the Argentine Football Association (AFA) for the exclusive transmission of Argentine football (soccer) matches. All the official matches were available on the TyC Sports and TyC Max cable channels. This agreement would expire in 2014.

Many people, such as the journalist Victor Hugo Morales, disagrees with the agreement, accusing it of being monopolic. For example, no other media were allowed to broadcast images of Argentine Primera Division soccer games –the most important league in Argentine Football– until the end of the programme Futbol de Primera.

Removal of Primera Division television rights

In July 2009, due to a economical crisis that affected several Primera Division clubs, the AFA tried new ways of financing. The President of the AFA, Julio Grondona, requested TSC authorities to modify the contract for television rights in order for the AFA to receive 720 million Argentine Pesos. However, in the last season, TSC paid the AFA 230 million pesos, and the request was rejected by TSC..

Later, Grondona received an offer from the Argentine Government in order for the National System of Public Media –the state-owned Channel 7– to replace TSC for broadcasting the games on TV. It is worth mentioning that Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's Government has a public confrontation against the Clarin group, a member of TSC.

In August 11, 2009, the AFA broke the contract with TSC, accusing it of not fulfilling the agreement. Then, the AFA sued TSC,, but TyC also tried an unsuccessful lawsuit against the AFA for cancelling the contract.

Evertithing Follow producing of the Second and Third Division.

Since August 21, 2009, the television rights for Argentine Primera Division belongs to Channel 7, which is owned by the Argentine state.

External links

TyC Official Site

TyC Sports Official Site

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