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Top sports media in Costa Rica

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

These are the outlets that cover sport in Costa Rica — 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.

1. TeleticaBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 48,772 — Canal 7 of Televisora de Costa Rica S.A., which dates its first live broadcast to 9 May 1960; Kantar IBOPE Media data rank its World Cup match broadcasts first among Canal 7 and Canal 6 programmes for July 2026. 2. RepretelBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 69,392 — Television group operating Canal 6 and other free-to-air channels, which the University of Costa Rica’s Mediapolis records as part of Grupo Albavisión; broadcasts Deportes Repretel and national football. 3. La Nación (Costa Rica)General sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 30,953 — San José daily first published on 12 October 1946, according to Mediapolis; its sports section, Puro Deporte, reported the federation’s ten-year exclusion of San Carlos FC in July 2026. 4. CR HoyGeneral sports coverage · News site · Tranco 55,826 — Digital-only news site founded in 2012, according to Mediapolis; its sports section covered the national team and the Liga Promerica disciplinary round-up in the week of 26 September 2026. 5. Diario ExtraGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 64,608 — Daily founded in 1978 by William Gómez Vargas, according to Mediapolis, which records Grupo Extra’s sale to Grupo Transcomer; its sports section was publishing on 26 September 2026.