Oscar E. Bosetti

Oscar Enrique Bosetti was born in Buenos Aires on 28 January 1955. He graduated in 1978 from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires and built a life at the intersection of radio practice, university teaching, and historical research on Argentine broadcasting. Colleagues and students came to regard him as one of the country's most careful readers of radio's past and one of its most persuasive defenders of the medium's future.

His early radio work began in the mid-1980s, after the return of democracy. In 1984 he worked as a producer on Mañana, Tarde y Noche on Radio Belgrano, contributing reports that supported memory, truth, and justice themes in a still-fragile public culture. Over the following years he worked with stations including Radio Splendid, Radio General Urquiza, and Radio Rivadavia. The practice of radio and the study of radio remained joined for him. He later summarized his method as "hacer radio, haciendo radio": learning by producing, and teaching by treating the studio and the classroom as the same workshop.

Bosetti helped design the Social Communication curriculum at what became the Faculty of Education sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos when democratic universities rebuilt programs after 1983. He taught for decades in Comunicación Social at UNER (Audio, Periodismo Político, Producción Periodística), becoming a familiar presence in Paraná even though he was born and long based in Buenos Aires. He coordinated audio work at the Centro de Producción en Comunicación y Educación (CePCE), and from 1992 he was a central figure in the Agencia Radiofónica de Comunicación (ARC). He also became a reference point for Radio UNER Paraná from its first broadcast in 2011.

In Buenos Aires he taught radio workshops in Communication Sciences at UBA. Between 2002 and 2006 he served as Subsecretario de Medios of the University of Buenos Aires and was among the founders and general coordinator of Radio UBA (UBA FM 90.5). He taught as well at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Universidad Nacional del Centro (Olavarría), Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (where he served as vice-director of the journalism degree), and the Escuela de Comunicación ETER, which he helped shape from planning meetings in the late 1990s with Eduardo Aliverti and others.

As an author and compiler he published Radiofonías: Palabras y sonidos de largo alcance (1993), Las tres frecuencias didácticas del dial radiofónico (1997), Las charlas radiofónicas de Discepolín (1999), La radio en Argentina (2007), Noventa años de palabras y sonidos de largo alcance (2009), Radio Nacional: las maneras de hablar de un medio público (2010), and Radios de(s)generadas (as compiler), among other works. His books mixed archival chronology, technological change, and cultural reading. Students remembered his classroom retelling of Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast as a lesson in radio's power to invent reality through the codes of news.

In later years he hosted Tramas, a program carried on multiple Argentine stations, and remained active in university radio culture after formal retirement. He retired as a professor in November 2025 after 36 years of teaching at UNER Comunicación Social and was publicly recognized by the Directing Council in December 2025. He continued coordinating CePCE audio work and ARC after retirement.

Bosetti died in Buenos Aires on 27 September 2026 at age 71 after days in hospital with a heart condition. UNER's Faculty of Education declared institutional mourning for 28 September without suspending classes. A chapel service was held that morning at Cementerio de la Chacarita. The faculty's memorial named his partner, dean Aixa Boeykens, among those receiving condolences. Journalist Eduardo Aliverti wrote that Bosetti had been the greatest researcher of Argentine radiofonía and had answered, point by point, every premature forecast of radio's death. Colleagues in Paraná called him "la radio personificada."