Andrés_
05 May 2009, 03:44 AM
Well as you may know there's a contract with TSC until the season 2013/14 for the TV rights of the 1st and 2nd division(I have no idea how it works with the 3rd division), it's widely known that the clubs are getting robbed big time, in top of that since September of last year TSC has been trying to renovate this contract, though they haven't been succesfull. However is there any hope for a change? Well, yes there is...
Those who're in Argentina or who follow argentine football and argentine events in general may know that the football TV rights talk is very much a taboo and that currently there's a law that will go the congress in June regarding audivisual services(Ley de servicios audiovisuales) which the mainsteam media tries to not talk about too much it, or if they talk about it they don't say anything of what's with it or try to avoid giving any detail about it, for example it states that the standard for digital TV in Argentina will be ISDB-T, the brazilian norm with japanese technology which would allow HD emissions originated from Argentina, but nevermind that is going to something not related to football.
Anyway some months ago i came up to this article, however what it says isn't widely known, so i decided that i'll do my part(regardless of how little it could be), but still i think it's something you MUST read: http://criticadigital.com/impresa/index.php?secc=nota&nid=20908
Shocking, huh? So yeah argentine football generates around 9.3 billion pesos on TV rights, that's around 2.5 billion dollars, figure how the clubs are getting robbed there with just 230 million pesos for the 40 clubs of the first and second division.
Now here's the interesting part:
El Gobierno ya demostró que le presta atención al asunto. Desde el año pasado puso en marcha lo que consideran una prueba piloto: Canal 7 televisa los partidos del viernes y se prepara para hacer lo mismo con el Nacional B. El rating de entre 7 y 8 puntos es alto para la emisora oficial. Los habitués de la residencia de Olivos prometen como anzuelo que el 50 por ciento de lo que se recaude será destinado a las menguadas arcas de los clubes de fútbol.It's true, starting this season the first divison match played on Fridays at 9:30pm is aired on Canal 7, same with the second division match on Saturdays at 6:00pm. But leaving aside that and doing some calcs... Assuming that the numbers stay the same(if they don't increase because we're talking about open TV here, yes cable too spreaded through Argentina but it has its limitations, differently from satelite, though there's only one satelite provider in Argentina, DirecTV, and also pressuming that in a near future digital TV would be more wide) so, they'd keep 1.25 billion dollars and the clubs would get the same amount(Should it be more than 50%? Should it be less? Debatable but for now let's pressume if it's like that), so if it's shared in the same proportion between the two divisions, if each club got the same amount of money more or less we could conclude that... Each 2nd division club would be getting 15 million dollars, and each 1st division club would be getting 47.5 million dollars on just TV rights!:eek:
En Europa también hay hinchas.
Para tener una dimensión acerca de la desproporción entre el dinero que el negocio del fútbol televisado genera y la fracción que reciben los clubes, sólo hay que comparar números. Los clubes de Primera A y del Nacional B reciben hoy 230 millones de pesos por año: 180 para la A y 50 para el Nacional. El presidente de un club que pidió no ser identificado le contó a Crítica de la Argentina que, en una reunión del Cómite Ejecutivo de la AFA de 2008, el entonces presidente de Boca Juniors, Pedro Pompilio, dio una cifra que quedó grabada para siempre en el grupo de dirigentes de Primera A que lo escuchaba. “En Europa hay tres millones de personas que pagan tres euros por partido. Son 9 millones de euros que recauda TSC sólo por un partido”.Well, the potential of this is interesting too. Unclear what's the total from that but it's probably included in the 9.3 billion pesos sum. So pressuming they get 9 million euros for each match, there're 380 matches per season(this probably talks about just first division matches and not all the 380 matches per season may generate interest, possibly just 1/4 of them at best but just to see its potential). So if for each match they get 9 million euros, for the 380 matches they'd be getting... 3.4 billion euros.:eek:
Those who're in Argentina or who follow argentine football and argentine events in general may know that the football TV rights talk is very much a taboo and that currently there's a law that will go the congress in June regarding audivisual services(Ley de servicios audiovisuales) which the mainsteam media tries to not talk about too much it, or if they talk about it they don't say anything of what's with it or try to avoid giving any detail about it, for example it states that the standard for digital TV in Argentina will be ISDB-T, the brazilian norm with japanese technology which would allow HD emissions originated from Argentina, but nevermind that is going to something not related to football.
Anyway some months ago i came up to this article, however what it says isn't widely known, so i decided that i'll do my part(regardless of how little it could be), but still i think it's something you MUST read: http://criticadigital.com/impresa/index.php?secc=nota&nid=20908
Shocking, huh? So yeah argentine football generates around 9.3 billion pesos on TV rights, that's around 2.5 billion dollars, figure how the clubs are getting robbed there with just 230 million pesos for the 40 clubs of the first and second division.
Now here's the interesting part:
El Gobierno ya demostró que le presta atención al asunto. Desde el año pasado puso en marcha lo que consideran una prueba piloto: Canal 7 televisa los partidos del viernes y se prepara para hacer lo mismo con el Nacional B. El rating de entre 7 y 8 puntos es alto para la emisora oficial. Los habitués de la residencia de Olivos prometen como anzuelo que el 50 por ciento de lo que se recaude será destinado a las menguadas arcas de los clubes de fútbol.It's true, starting this season the first divison match played on Fridays at 9:30pm is aired on Canal 7, same with the second division match on Saturdays at 6:00pm. But leaving aside that and doing some calcs... Assuming that the numbers stay the same(if they don't increase because we're talking about open TV here, yes cable too spreaded through Argentina but it has its limitations, differently from satelite, though there's only one satelite provider in Argentina, DirecTV, and also pressuming that in a near future digital TV would be more wide) so, they'd keep 1.25 billion dollars and the clubs would get the same amount(Should it be more than 50%? Should it be less? Debatable but for now let's pressume if it's like that), so if it's shared in the same proportion between the two divisions, if each club got the same amount of money more or less we could conclude that... Each 2nd division club would be getting 15 million dollars, and each 1st division club would be getting 47.5 million dollars on just TV rights!:eek:
En Europa también hay hinchas.
Para tener una dimensión acerca de la desproporción entre el dinero que el negocio del fútbol televisado genera y la fracción que reciben los clubes, sólo hay que comparar números. Los clubes de Primera A y del Nacional B reciben hoy 230 millones de pesos por año: 180 para la A y 50 para el Nacional. El presidente de un club que pidió no ser identificado le contó a Crítica de la Argentina que, en una reunión del Cómite Ejecutivo de la AFA de 2008, el entonces presidente de Boca Juniors, Pedro Pompilio, dio una cifra que quedó grabada para siempre en el grupo de dirigentes de Primera A que lo escuchaba. “En Europa hay tres millones de personas que pagan tres euros por partido. Son 9 millones de euros que recauda TSC sólo por un partido”.Well, the potential of this is interesting too. Unclear what's the total from that but it's probably included in the 9.3 billion pesos sum. So pressuming they get 9 million euros for each match, there're 380 matches per season(this probably talks about just first division matches and not all the 380 matches per season may generate interest, possibly just 1/4 of them at best but just to see its potential). So if for each match they get 9 million euros, for the 380 matches they'd be getting... 3.4 billion euros.:eek: