Fútbol para todos

Fútbol para todos (Football for All) is an Argentine television program produced by the federal government for the transmission of matches and tournaments of the Argentine Primera División and Primera B Nacional. Established in 2009, the program is aired by TV Pública Digital, the state broadcaster, with matches aired by various stations in the interior of the country.

History

From 1991 to 2009, the rights to Primera División matches were held by Televisión Satélite Codificada, a company co-owned by Grupo Clarín and Torneos y Competencias. Most of the matches were broadcast on the cable channel TyC Sports, and some were broadcast as pay-per-view events. The rights included a restriction for other outlets: until the Sunday night highlights show Fútbol de Primera was broadcast, no other media could air highlights of the matches.

After the 2008-09 season, several Primera División clubs began to run into severe financial troubles that also put the 2009-10 championship at risk. The Argentine Football Association (AFA) asked TSC to pay 720 million pesos to ameliorate the situation, but TSC, which had already paid 230 million pesos to the AFA, declined, saying that the payment would put the company at risk of major losses.

On 8 August 2009, the Argentine government made an offer for 600 million pesos for the rights to broadcast the games, which would be placed on over-the-air television. Three days later, the AFA announced it was breaking the contract it had with TSC, which extended until 2014, and on 20 August, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced in a cadena nacional that over-the-air TV stations would offer free broadcasts of the matches.

In 2011, the AFA broke its television contract with TRISA, another joint venture between Clarín and TyC, for Primera B Nacional matches.

Broadcast

The Fútbol para todos broadcast includes its own announcers and advertising, which all repeaters carry. Only two advertisers are part of the program: truck manufacturer Iveco, which has naming rights to the league, and institutional advertising from the Argentine presidency.

In 2011, repeats began to be shown on Gol TV, which was replaced in 2012 with the startup state-run channel DeporTV.

Awards

Nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Todos los nominados a los Martín Fierro 2014" [All the nominations for the 2014 Martín Fierro] (in Spanish). La Nación. April 15, 201. Retrieved April 14, 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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