Argentina Radio Live — Free Online Stations

Argentina celebrates a national Radio Day every 27 August, in honour of four young men who climbed onto a theatre roof in Buenos Aires in 1920 and put an opera on the air. Their adventure is one of the founding stories of world broadcasting, and it is the heritage behind the stations people find when they search for Argentine radio live or radio Argentina en vivo.

27 August 1920: the rooftop madmen

That night, around nine o'clock, Enrique Susini, César Guerrico, Luis Romero Carranza and Miguel Mujica broadcast Wagner's Parsifal from the roof of the Teatro Coliseo with a tiny transmitter of about five watts. Only a few dozen receivers existed in the city to hear it. They became known as Los Locos de la Azotea, "the madmen of the rooftop", and their Radio Argentina is often described as one of the world's first regular stations.

A radio capital

Buenos Aires quickly became one of the busiest radio cities on earth. In 1922 Radio Argentina broadcast the inauguration of President Marcelo T. de Alvear live, and stations carried tango from clubs and opera from the Teatro Colón. The state entered the market in 1937 with Radio Nacional.

The voice of tango and football

Radio made tango a national soundtrack and turned football commentators into celebrities. Argentine sports broadcasting, with its fast, emotional narration of every attack, remains one of the most distinctive in the world.

Talk radio and the big stations

Radio Mitre became the first Argentine station to broadcast around the clock, in 1960. Today Mitre, Continental, Rivadavia, Radio 10 and others lead a market of morning talk shows, political interviews and long football nights, alongside hundreds of FM stations across the provinces.

Listening from anywhere

Argentina has one of the densest radio dials in Latin America, and streaming now carries it to Argentines in Spain, Italy and beyond. Below you can play the Argentine radio stations online we index, free and without an app.