Argentina

=== Mass media ===
{{Main|Communications in Argentina}}
[[File:Canal_7_Argentina.JPG|thumb|Headquarters of the [[TV Pública Digital (Argentina)|Channel 7]], the first television station in the country]]
The print media industry is highly developed in Argentina, with more than two hundred newspapers. The major national ones include {{lang|es|[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]]}} (centrist, Latin America's best-seller and the second most widely circulated in the Spanish-speaking world), ''[[La Nación (Buenos Aires)|La Nación]]'' (centre-right, published since 1870), ''[[Página/12]]'' (leftist, founded in 1987), ''[[La Voz del Interior]]'' (centre, founded in 1904),{{sfn|Aeberhard|Benson|Phillips|2000|p=45}} and the ''[[Argentinisches Tageblatt]]'' (German weekly, liberal, published since 1878).{{sfn|Akstinat|2013|p=20}}

Argentina began [[History of radio|the world's first regular radio broadcasting]] on 27 August 1920, when [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Parsifal]]'' was aired by a team of medical students led by [[Enrique Telémaco Susini]] in Buenos Aires' [[Teatro Coliseo]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Moore |first=Don |title=Radio with a past in Argentina |url=http://www.pateplumaradio.com/south/misc/argendx.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523000648/http://www.pateplumaradio.com/south/misc/argendx.html |archive-date=23 May 2013}} A slightly edited version of this article was originally published as {{cite magazine |last1=Moore|first1=Don|date=January 1995 |title=Argentina: Radio with a Past|journal=Monitoring Times|publisher=Grove Enterprises |place=Brasstown, NC}}</ref> {{As of|2002|alt=By 2002}} there were 260 [[AM broadcasting|AM]] and 1150 [[FM broadcasting|FM]] registered radio stations in the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=Argentina–Infraestructura |publisher=Mi Buenos Aires Querido |year=2002 |url=http://www.mibuenosairesquerido.com/xArgentina6.htm |access-date=2 October 2008 |language=es |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130723032928/http://www.mibuenosairesquerido.com/xArgentina6.htm |archive-date=23 July 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Television in Argentina|Argentine television]] industry is large, diverse and popular across Latin America, with many productions and [[TV format]]s having been exported abroad. Since 1999 Argentines enjoy the highest availability of cable and satellite television in Latin America,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tilan/statistics/cable_table.html|title=Homes with Cable TV in Latin America|publisher=LANIC – Latin American Network Information Center|place=Austin, TX|year=1999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113022948/http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tilan/statistics/cable_table.html|archive-date=13 November 2013|url-status = live}}</ref> {{as of|2014|lc=y}} totaling 87.4% of the country's households, a rate similar to those in the United States, Canada and Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lamac.org/argentina/metricas/total-por-tv-paga/|title=Penetración TV paga en hogares 2014 – Argentina|publisher=LAMAC – Latin American Multichannel Advertising Council|place=Coral Gables, FL|year=2014|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502045137/http://www.lamac.org/argentina/metricas/total-por-tv-paga/|archive-date=2 May 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=2 May 2014}}</ref>

{{As of|2011|alt=By 2011}} Argentina also had the highest coverage of networked telecommunications among Latin American powers: about 67% of its population had internet access and the ratio of mobile phone subscriptions to population was 137.2%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internetworldstats.com/south.htm|title=South America|publisher=IWS–ITU – Internet World Stats|year=2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402230620/http://www.internetworldstats.com/south.htm|archive-date=2 April 2014|url-status = live}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=Based on the results the data analysis seems to be fairly naive, however it is not clear what methodology the modern site uses either|date=June 2023}}