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Depor

Sports daily and site published by Grupo El Comercio; the Media Ownership Monitor names Servicios Especiales de Edición S.A. as its owner and Prensa Popular S.A.C. as the company that edits it.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026
TypeSports daily newspaper with a same-branded news site
PublisherGrupo El Comercio; the monitor names Servicios Especiales de Edición S.A. as owner and Prensa Popular S.A.C. as editor
Founded2009, per the Media Ownership Monitor Peru profile
MastheadSite footer names the director as Juan Aurelio Arévalo Miró Quesada and the subdirector as Raúl Castillo

What is Depor?

Depor is a Peruvian sports daily that also publishes at depor.com. Its own site carries the imprint “Copyright© Depor.pe - Grupo El Comercio - Todos los derechos reservados” and names its masthead as “Director: Juan Aurelio Arévalo Miró Quesada Subdirector: Raúl Castillo”, with the group's address at Calle Paracas 532, Pueblo Libre, Lima.[1]

Ownership is documented outside the title as well as on it. The Media Ownership Monitor Peru, the joint project of Reporters Without Borders and Ojo Público, records Depor's owner as “Servicios Especiales de Edición S.A. (Subsidiary of the ‘El Comercio’ group)”, places the title in the group it names as “Grupo El Comercio (hoy Vigenta Inversiones S.A.)”, and states that “Prensa Popular S.A.C. -created in 2001 by Servicios Especiales de Edición S.A., one of the main subsidiaries of the ‘El Comercio’ Group- is responsible for editing the newspapers Perú21 …, Trome …, Gestión … and Depor”.[2] The same project's print-media findings list Depor among nine newspapers it attributes to the El Comercio group, alongside El Comercio, Trome, Gestión and Publimetro, and separately notes Perú21, Correo, Ojo and El Bocón as “all bought from Epensa”.[3] Those attributions date from the monitor's research and are not a current corporate filing.[2]

What does Depor cover?

The site's own section structure is football-first and Peru-first: Liga 1 and the Lima clubs, the national team, and the South American club competitions, with further sections for international football and for betting information.[1] Its football coverage extends to the Liga 1 and to the competitions run by CONMEBOL.[1]

It is not confined to football. Depor's polideportivo desk has carried the documented governance record of Peruvian basketball, including the report that the FIBA Congress decided in June 2021 to remove Peru's national federation from FIBA's federated system.[4] The monitor's description of the title is that it “became the market leader in sports print media, after displacing its competition of the time: Líbero (La República), Bocón (Epensa) and Todo Sport (La Razón)” — a characterisation of the monitor's, quoted here and not adopted.[2]

How large is Depor's audience?

No audited circulation or readership figure for Depor could be retrieved for this page. The Media Ownership Monitor Peru's own profile of the title records its audience share as missing data.[2]

What the monitor does publish is the measurement framework of the market rather than a figure for this title. Its concentration findings state that “according to data from the Association of Peruvian Journalism Companies (SEPP), between 2013 and 2014 El Comercio concentrated 80% of newspaper circulation and 78% of the readership”.[6] Its print findings give one absolute figure, Trome at “more than 700,000 copies printed each day”.[3] On the digital side the monitor names the Interactive Advertising Bureau as the measuring body and lists www.Depor.com among the ten online outlets it examined by audience share, without publishing a figure for it.[5] Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and none is used here.

Since when has Depor existed?

The Media Ownership Monitor Peru's profile leaves its founding-year field empty but states in its text that “the newspaper Depor was established in 2009”.[2] The title's own site publishes no founding date in its imprint, so the 2009 date rests on that one source.[1][2]

The corporate history around it is dated differently from the title. The monitor records the owner group under the name Grupo El Comercio “hoy Vigenta Inversiones S.A.”, a renaming it does not date, and records the group's acquisition of the Epensa titles — Perú21, Correo, Ojo and El Bocón — as a completed purchase without giving the date of the transaction.[2][3] Founded, acquired and renamed are three separate dates here and only the first of them is on the record consulted.

Why does Depor matter in Peru's sport?

Its significance on this list is structural rather than evaluative. The Media Ownership Monitor Peru reports that its investigation “analyzed the 40 media outlets with the largest audience numbers in Peru” and that “out of these 40, 16 belong to the El Comercio Group”.[7] Its concentration findings add that after purchasing Epensa in 2013 “El Comercio has nine newspapers with editions in the north, center and south of the country”, and 13 online digital media.[6] Depor sits inside that group, which is what the monitor's concentration findings are about: it records that “El Comercio and its subsidiaries received more than 1.4 billion soles (US$ 411 million), or almost 60%” of the advertising it traced across nine media groups in 2016.[6]

For a reader using this site, the practical point is that a sports story in Peru is frequently first published inside that group and then travels. The basketball governance record, the paleta frontón material and the Liga 1 attendance reporting used on the Peru country page all come from group titles.[4] That is a reason to read the group's titles with their ownership attached, which is the monitor's stated purpose.[6]

References

  1. Depor (depor.com) — home page imprint: Grupo El Comercio, director and subdirector, Calle Paracas 532, Pueblo Libre, Lima. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  2. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — Diario Depor outlet profile: owner Servicios Especiales de Edición S.A., Prensa Popular S.A.C. as editor, founding-year field empty with 2009 given in the text, audience share missing data. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  3. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — Print media: the ten newspapers examined, the El Comercio group's titles, the Epensa purchase, circulation and readership shares 2013–2014. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  4. El Comercio — FIBA Congress expels Peru's national basketball federation, 4 June 2021, quoting artículo 10.6 of the FIBA General Statutes. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  5. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — Online media: the ten digital outlets examined and the Interactive Advertising Bureau as measuring body. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  6. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — Concentration findings: SEPP circulation and readership shares 2013–2014, nine newspapers and 13 online media, advertising figures for 2016. Accessed 2026-09-23.
  7. Media Ownership Monitor Peru — Media: the 40 highest-audience media outlets analysed, 16 of them belonging to the El Comercio Group. Accessed 2026-09-23.