CDN Deportes

What is CDN Deportes?

CDN Deportes is the sports service of the CDN television operation, published at cdndeportes.com.do. Because the sport service sits on its own domain rather than on a path of the parent site, the domain recorded here is its own.^[1]

On the television side, Diario Libre reported on 25 February 2025 that the programme La Hora del Deporte would move to CDN, canal 37, “a la 1 de la tarde cada domingo”, from an earlier slot on CDN Deportes, and described CDN as “el canal matriz de Multimedios El Caribe”.^[3] That is the ownership statement this page rests on and it is anchored to February 2025; no later statement of ownership was retrieved.

On the market it operates in, Reporters Without Borders writes of the Dominican Republic that “However, the concentration of media ownership in the hands of a few private groups, such as Grupo Corripio, has raised concerns regarding pluralism and editorial independence.”, placing the country 44th of 180 with a score of 69.73 in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index.^[4]

What does CDN Deportes cover?

The site carries sections for baseball, including the domestic winter league, basketball, football, golf and athletics, with further items in judo and other sports.^[1]

Its output mixes the domestic and the North American professional game. On 23 September 2026 the site carried items on an injury assessment for a Major League Baseball player and on results in a domestic basketball tournament.^[1]

It also carries items about the wider group it belongs to: the site's Multimedios del Caribe tag returned a report dated 15 May 2024 on a special programme with presidential candidates run by Multimedios El Caribe, in which the former president Leonel Fernández spoke about attention to sport.^[2]

How large is CDN Deportes's audience?

No audited audience or traffic currency for the Dominican market could be retrieved for this page, and the site publishes no audience figure of its own.^[1] Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and none is quoted here.

What can be stated is publication currency: the site's index carried items dated 23 September 2026 when retrieved, which is the date this page was compiled to.^[1]

Nor is there a published measure of how much of the national sporting programme the service covers. The sports with national federations are listed by the Ministerio de Deportes y Recreación in its own federation directory, which the ministry publishes without a total, and no mapping of that directory against any outlet's coverage is published by either side.^[5] What the index does show, on the day retrieved, is a spread of sports rather than a single one.^[1]

Since when has CDN Deportes existed?

The site publishes no founding date. Its footer carries a copyright line reading 2021, which is a statement about the site rather than about the service's beginning.^[1]

An earlier existence of the service is documented indirectly: Diario Libre's report of 25 February 2025 describes La Hora del Deporte as moving away from a slot it already held on CDN Deportes, so the service was carrying that programme before that date.^[3] No instrument establishing a founding date for either the channel or the site was retrieved for this page.

The site's own archive reaches back at least to 15 May 2024, the date of the tagged report on the Multimedios El Caribe programme with presidential candidates, which is a floor for the site's publishing history rather than a starting point.^[2] A copyright line and an archive floor are different kinds of evidence from a stated founding date, and neither is one.

Why does CDN Deportes matter in Dominican Republic's sport?

It is a sport-only national service rather than a section of a general title, so its index is a continuous dated record of domestic competition: winter baseball, domestic basketball tournaments and national-team volleyball all appear in the same run.^[1]

It sits inside a television group, so its material connects to broadcast output: the programme La Hora del Deporte moved between CDN Deportes and CDN canal 37 in February 2025, on Diario Libre's report.^[3]

Its sections track the sports that have national federations in the ministry's own directory — baseball, basketball, football, golf, athletics and judo among them — so the service's index runs close to the structure of the national sporting programme rather than to a single sport.^[1][5]

Reporters Without Borders' statement about concentration of ownership among a few private groups is quoted above; it is RSF's characterisation of the Dominican market and not this page's.^[4]