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Top sports media in Dominican Republic

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

These are the outlets that cover sport in Dominican Republic — 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. Listín DiarioGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 38,602 — A Santo Domingo daily published by Editora Listín Diario, S.A., whose own history page dates the first issue to 1 August 1889 and a reappearance to 1 August 1963; its sport desk publishes as El Deporte. 2. Diario LibreGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 35,244 — A Dominican daily whose own about page dates its print edition to 2001 as the country's first free-distribution newspaper and records its acquisition by Grupo Puntacana in July 2023; its sport desk is organised by sport. 3. CERTV — Corporación Estatal de Radio y TelevisiónBroadcaster · Television · not in the Tranco top million — The state broadcasting corporation created by Ley núm. 134-03, in Gaceta Oficial núm. 10226 of 29 July 2003, operating RTVD Canal 4, RTVD 17 and three radio stations; its television service was the official channel of the 2026 Games in Santo Domingo. 4. CDN DeportesSpecialist title · News site · not in the Tranco top million — The sports service of the CDN television operation, published on its own domain; Diario Libre described CDN in February 2025 as the parent channel of Multimedios El Caribe, carried on canal 37. 5. HoyGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 89,203 — A Santo Domingo daily whose own account dates its first issue to 11 August 1981 under the founder José Luis Corripio; its sport section runs columns and subsections for baseball, basketball, football, tennis and the North American leagues. 6. El Nuevo DiarioGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 156,195 — A Santo Domingo daily published by Editora El Nuevo Diario, S. A., which states that the company was founded on 8 May 1981; its Deportes section publishes daily Dominican and international sports reporting. 7. El CaribeGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 169,049 — A Santo Domingo daily published online as Periódico elCaribe, whose Deportes path carries dated Dominican competition reporting; Diario Libre described CDN in February 2025 as the parent channel of the group Multimedios El Caribe.