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Top sports media in Barbados

The outlets that cover sport in Barbados — the sports press, the broadcasters, the agencies and the specialist titles.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026

These are the outlets that cover sport in Barbados — the sports press, the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, the national news agency where it carries sport, and the specialist titles of national standing. Single-sport titles without national standing are not listed here; they appear on the media list for their own sport.

How this list is ordered. By role and national standing — the sports press first, then the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, then the national news agency and the specialist titles. That order is set once and stays put, so a page that has been cited does not rearrange itself later. The Tranco figure against each outlet is shown for reference and does not set the order. Tranco is a research ranking of web domains that averages the Chrome User Experience Report, Cloudflare Radar, Majestic, Cisco Umbrella and Farsight over the preceding 30 days, on the list of September 2026. It ranks a whole domain, not a sports desk. A general daily's rank counts every reader it has, most of whom did not come for sport, so a national newspaper will sit above a dedicated sports title that has more sports readers than it does. Some outlets carry no Tranco figure at all. Tranco ranks registrable domains, so a sports desk published on a subdomain cannot appear in it whatever its readership, and a smaller national outlet may sit outside the top million. Those are marked below.

1. Caribbean Broadcasting CorporationBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 326,479 — The state broadcaster of Barbados, carried in the index of the Statutes of Barbados under its own chapter, Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation Cap. 276, and publishing sport news, match attendance figures and hosting announcements at cbc.bb. 2. The NationGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 142,827 — Published by Nation Publishing Co. Limited of Fontabelle, St Michael, within the One Caribbean Media group, and carrying a daily sport section at nationnews.com that ran cricket and football reports through 23 September 2026. 3. Barbados TODAYGeneral sports coverage · News site · Tranco 188,063 — An online Barbadian daily published by The (Barbados) Today Inc., with a sport section that carried football, cricket, karting and Prime Minister's Cup reporting through 22 September 2026. 4. Starcom NetworkBroadcaster · Radio · not in the Tranco top million — The Barbadian radio operator that states it was named STARCOM Network Inc. on 27 November 1999, having been Barbados Rediffusion Services Ltd, and that it was acquired by the Nation Corporation in September 1979. 5. Barbados Government Information ServiceNews agency · News agency · Tranco 302,645 — Described on a Government of Barbados page as the official communications arm of the Barbados Government, established in 1958, and publishing dated sport statements including ministerial remarks on road tennis.