CERTV is the Dominican state broadcasting corporation. Article 1 of Ley num. 134-03 creates the Corporacion Estatal de Radio y Television as a decentralised state entity with functional, jurisdictional and financial autonomy, and article 24 provides for assets of the Dominican State to pass into its patrimony.

What is CERTV's role in Dominican sport?

The organising committee of the Santo Domingo 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games announced on 29 April 2026 that Radio Television Dominicana would be the official channel of the Games, with eight simultaneous signals and distribution through digital platforms. CERTV reported on 24 August 2026 that the committee had presented RTVD with a recognition for that transmission.

CERTV — Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión

Q: Which channels and stations does CERTV operate?

CERTV lists RTVD Canal 4, RTVD 17, Dominicana FM, Quisqueya FM, Radio Santo Domingo and the Instituto RTVD.

Q: How large was the audience for CERTV's coverage of the 2026 Games?

CERTV's own account puts the reach of the transmission at about 8.22 million viewers, with volleyball and athletics drawing the largest shares at 40 per cent and 39 per cent. That is the broadcaster's own figure and no audited currency stands behind it.

Q: When was CERTV created?

CERTV dates from Ley num. 134-03, which its closing formula dates to 29 July 2003 and whose source line agrees, reading G. O. 10226 of 29 July 2003. The header of that digital copy carries a third date, Fecha 15/8/2003, which is a property of the document rather than a date the law states. RTVD's own account dates the broadcasting service itself to 1 August 1942 at Bonao, under the name La Voz del Yuna, with television added in 1952.

What is CERTV?

CERTV is the Dominican state broadcasting corporation. Article 1 of Ley núm. 134-03, whose title is “Que crea la Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión (CERTV)”, provides: “Se crea la Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión (CERTV), con carácter de entidad estatal descentralizada, con autonomía funcional, jurisdiccional y financiera”.^[1] Article 24 of the same law provides for assets of the Dominican State to pass into the corporation's patrimony.^[1]

The corporation describes itself as “el órgano del Estado dominicano creado mediante la ley 134 del año 2003”, whose principal object is to serve as a means of diffusion of the principles and values that sustain the Dominican state, and lists its services as RTVD Canal 4, RTVD 17, Dominicana FM, Quisqueya FM, Radio Santo Domingo and the Instituto RTVD.^[2]^[3]

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.”, and places the country 44th of 180 with a score of 69.73 in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index.^[7]

What does CERTV cover?

The statutory object is set by the law rather than by a schedule: Ley núm. 134-03 frames the corporation's purpose as the management of public telecommunications spectrum for television and radio broadcasting services.^[1] RTVD states its remit as the “producción, programación y emisión de contenido educativo, cultural, noticioso, de opinión, legislativo, estatal y de entretenimiento de alta calidad”.^[4]

Sport enters through event coverage rather than through a standing sports channel. The organising committee of the Santo Domingo 2026 Games announced on 29 April 2026 that Radio Televisión Dominicana would be the official channel of the Games, in an arrangement providing eight simultaneous signals so that up to eight competitions could be carried live, with distribution also through digital platforms and with private channels alongside; the announcement was made by José Monegro, president of the organising committee, and Iván Ruiz, general director of RTVD.^[5]

Outside that, the corporation's own news pages in September 2026 carried institutional rather than sporting items, and its own site sets out no standing sports programme strand.^[3]

How large is CERTV's audience?

There is no audited audience currency for Dominican television that could be retrieved for this page. The one audience figure available is the corporation's own. CERTV reported on 24 August 2026 that the organising committee of the XXV Central American and Caribbean Games had presented a recognition to Radio Televisión Dominicana for its transmission of the Games, and its account puts the reach of that transmission at about 8.22 million viewers, with volleyball and athletics drawing the largest shares at 40 per cent and 39 per cent respectively.^[6]

That figure is the broadcaster's own account of its own transmission, is reported here as such, and is not an audited measurement. The recognition was presented to Iván Ruiz at a ceremony on 23 August 2026 attended by President Luis Abinader.^[6]

Since when has CERTV existed?

The corporation dates from Ley núm. 134-03, which its closing formula dates to 29 July 2003: “DADA en Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Distrito Nacional, Capital de la República Dominicana, a los veintinueve (29) días del mes de julio del año dos mil tres (2003), años 160 de la Independencia y 140 de la Restauración”. The source line of the same copy agrees, reading “Fuente: G. O. 10226, 29 de julio del 2003”. The header of that digital copy carries a third date, “Fecha: 15/8/2003”, which is a property of the document rather than a date the law states.^[1] The corporation's own page gives the instrument simply as “la ley 134 del año 2003”.^[2]

The broadcasting service it inherited is older, and the two dates are different things. RTVD's own account states that the station was founded at Bonao on 1 August 1942 under the name La Voz del Yuna, that it was established by J. Arismendy Trujillo Molina, and that television was added in 1952; that account is the broadcaster's own and is attributed here rather than adopted.^[4] RTVD states that it has operated as part of CERTV since 2003.^[4]

Why does CERTV matter in Dominican Republic's sport?

Its documented sporting role is the host broadcast of the XXV Central American and Caribbean Games, staged in Santo Domingo in 2026. The organising committee named RTVD the official channel on 29 April 2026, with eight simultaneous signals and digital distribution.^[5]

After the Games the committee presented RTVD with a recognition for that transmission, in the account the corporation published on 24 August 2026, which names volleyball and athletics as the disciplines with the largest audience shares.^[6]

Because the corporation exists by statute rather than by concession, its remit is fixed in the law that created it and its sporting output follows from that remit rather than from a rights portfolio; no standing sports-rights agreement of CERTV's was retrieved for this page.^[1]^[3]