Al Aire Libre

What is Al Aire Libre?

Al Aire Libre is the sports service associated with Radio Cooperativa. Its own account of itself begins “Al Aire Libre nació como un programa de radio”, and dates the launch to 2 January 1995 “bajo el alero de la Compañía Chilena de Comunicaciones y Radio Cooperativa”.^[1] Both the origin and the date are the outlet's own statements.

It publishes on its own domain rather than on a path of its parent's site; the footer of that domain carries only “© 2026 Alairelibre. Todos los derechos reservados.” and names no owning company.^[2] The parent's own news site carries a separate Deportes section whose footer identifies the Compañía Chilena de Comunicaciones and states “más de 80 años de trayectoria”.^[3] This page records the outlet at its own domain and notes the relationship rather than merging the two.

What does Al Aire Libre cover?

Its stated remit is broad within sport. The outlet says its purpose has been to report “fútbol local e internacional”, to follow “tenistas chilenos en el circuito ATP”, to cover Olympic cycles and to carry major world sporting events.^[1]

Its own front page carries Chilean club football — Colo-Colo, Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica among others — the Copa Chile, international club competition, tennis including the Davis Cup, and a general multi-sport section under the heading Polideportivo.^[2] The parent's Deportes section covers the same ground and adds the national league, the Copa Libertadores, the national team, cycling, volleyball and rugby.^[3]

That section's reporting includes the history of Chilean club football: on 5 June 2024 it recorded Colo-Colo's 1991 Copa Libertadores, a goalless first leg in Asunción and a 3-0 second leg at the Estadio Monumental in Santiago.^[4] The same report describes the result, in the outlet's own words, as “el logro a nivel de clubes más grande del fútbol de nuestro país” — a characterisation of the outlet's, not of this page.^[4]

The Olympic strand of the stated remit is reflected in the parent section's coverage of continental multi-sport competition and of Chilean athletes at it.^[3]

How large is Al Aire Libre's audience?

No audited audience figure for the programme or the site could be retrieved, and none is asserted here. Radio audience in Chile is measured by panel study rather than published per programme in any source retrievable for this page, and neither the outlet's own pages nor its parent's publish a listenership or a visitor number.^[1][3]

The one measured Chilean audience series that could be retrieved is for television — the Consejo Nacional de Televisión's Anuario Estadístico de Oferta y Consumo de TV 2025, built on Ibope's cross-media panel of 1,078 households and 3,259 people — and it does not cover radio.^[5] Comscore's published Chilean digital figures are category figures: a news-category penetration of “91,1%” and an average of “71.1 minutos al mes en sitios online de noticias”, with no per-outlet figure for this site.^[6] Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and are not used here.

Since when has Al Aire Libre existed?

The outlet dates itself to 2 January 1995, when it launched as a radio programme under the Compañía Chilena de Comunicaciones and Radio Cooperativa.^[1] That is its own claim about itself and no independent source for the date could be retrieved.

The parent is older: the Cooperativa news site states “más de 80 años de trayectoria” without giving a founding year.^[3] Launch of the programme, launch of the website and the founding of the station are three separate dates, and only the first is documented here.

Why does Al Aire Libre matter in Chile's sport?

It is the sport output of a radio company rather than of a newspaper or a television channel, and it is published under its own name and its own domain, with a stated remit that runs past football to tennis and the Olympic cycle.^[1][2] That remit is unusual in being stated in the outlet's own words rather than inferred from its output, and this page reports it as the outlet's statement.^[1]

Its parent's Deportes section is one of the places where the record of Chilean club football is kept in dated form, including the account of the 1991 Copa Libertadores final published on 5 June 2024.^[4] The relationship between the two is a matter of the same company publishing on two addresses, which is recorded here rather than resolved.