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Top sports media in Ecuador

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

These are the outlets that cover sport in Ecuador — 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. El UniversoGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 26,885 — Guayaquil daily whose own history page dates its first issue to Friday 16 September 1921 and records the launch of eluniverso.com on 21 July 1996. 2. El ComercioGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 30,180 — Quito title whose group Infoamérica traces to 1906 and to the Mantilla Jácome brothers; its Deportes section states coverage of Ecuadorian and world football, tennis, cycling, basketball and Formula 1. 3. PrimiciasGeneral sports coverage · News site · Tranco 43,861 — Digital outlet that describes itself as the first wholly digital newspaper in Ecuador and names a dedicated sports editor; its readings of LigaPro match records supply the attendance figures used across this list. 4. ExpresoGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 79,678 — Guayaquil daily published by Gráficos Nacionales S.A.; its own pages give two different founding dates in July 1973 and this page adopts neither. 5. ExtraGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 258,652 — Guayaquil daily of Gráficos Nacionales S.A., recorded by its stablemate as founded on 21 October 1974; its Deportes section publishes club-by-club LigaPro gate figures. 6. Ecuador TVBroadcaster · Television · not in the Tranco top million — Ecuador's public television channel, operated by the Empresa Pública de Comunicación del Ecuador EP, which states it was created by Decreto Ejecutivo Nº 1160 of 26 September 2020 with its outlets integrated on 9 April 2021.