Public TV does not broadcast the Pre-Olympic and doubts it will be able to broadcast the Copa América and the Olympic Games

The adjustment of spending on public TV will be made it cannot be viewed for free the football matches of the South American U-23 Pre-Olympic Championship, which will begin this weekend in Venezuela and will give two places to the Paris Olympic Games.

According to official sources consulted by Clarionthe negotiation with Conmebol got bogged down because Radio and Television Argentina (RTA, the company that manages public TV) is not willing to pay the rights to broadcast Under 23 matches. While DirecTV purchased those rights to broadcast them through its sports channel Dsports.

He arrived in Caracas on Wednesday the team led by Javier Mascheranowith Thiago Almada, Valentín Barco and the little devil Echeverri, among its protagonists, in an area that will be able to compete with Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile and Peru.

The first match will be Sunday at 8pm against Paraguay. And the day before the Pre-Olympic Championship begins – the last edition of which was won by Argentina – with the challenge between Ecuador and Colombia.

“However, it is likely that the Pre-Olympic will not be broadcast on public TV The negotiation will continue until the last minute.“, a source from the state channel said to Clarion.

And I add: “There is the intention to broadcast the Olympic Games and the Copa América“, if a balanced budget was achieved that compensates the cost of the broadcast with the advertising obtained to pay for it, even if it is a somewhat distant question due to the emergencies that the current management has in RTA”, explained an official source. said Clarion.

Public television is applying a policy of strong spending adjustments, to reduce the deficit inherited from the management of Rosario Lufrano in the state company Radio e Television Argentina (RTA), which By 2023 it had skyrocketed to over $20 billion.

This year began with the discontinuation of traditional cell phones on the Atlantic coast and the midnight and weekend newscasts of Public TV, as well as a deep cut in the overtime of the broadcaster’s employees, in the co-productions of programs and in the broadcast of provincial festivals.

The current management, in fact, has decided to broadcast, as every year, various summer festivals that take place in the province, but this time Public TV will not send teams of drivers, producers or technicians. Nor will they pay to upload the audiovisual signal to the satellite.

“We are negotiating with each festival, so that each one bears the costs of production and distribution. We just send one producer and take the signal that each festival produces,” he said Clarion a channel source.

They proposed the same scheme to Conmebol to broadcast the pre-Olympic, from Venezuela. But so far they have not had an official response and the signals that have come from there are negative, so everything indicates that public TV will not broadcast those Under 23 football matches.

Instead, for the Olympic Games and the Copa AméricaThe public TV project is to develop an industrial plan that offsets the cost of broadcasting rights with the advertising that could be collected on both sporting events, in order to propose a better offer than that of the Pre-Olympic .

The Copa América will begin next June 20th and will be played in several cities in the United States, where Argentina will defend the champion title obtained at the Maracaná in 2021. And the Olympic Games will be held from July 26th to August 11thin Paris, France, with 32 sports set to participate in the Olympic calendar.