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Meridiano

Caracas sports title published by Bloque Dearmas since 1969, running a printed daily, the Meridiano Televisión channel and the meridiano.net site under one masthead.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026
Founded3 November 1969, per the outlet's own anniversary coverage
OwnerBloque Dearmas
TelevisionMeridiano Televisión, first broadcast 5 December 1997
BaseCaracas
FormatsPrinted daily, free-to-air and cable channel, website
Sitemeridiano.net

What is Meridiano?

Meridiano is a Venezuelan sports title published from Caracas by Bloque Dearmas. It operates as three things under a single masthead: a printed sports daily, the television channel Meridiano Televisión, and the website at meridiano.net. The outlet's own anniversary coverage dates the newspaper to 3 November 1969 and treats paper, channel and site as one brand.[1] Meridiano reports that the television arm first went to air on 5 December 1997, following a broadcasting concession granted to Bloque Dearmas in 1992.[2]

The newspaper is a tabloid-format sports paper distributed in the Caracas metropolitan area; the Institute of Press and Society of Venezuela (IPYS Venezuela) recorded it in 2021 as one of two tabloids then printing Monday to Friday in the capital, alongside Diario 2001.[4] The website carries the same sections as the paper — Venezuelan and North American baseball, football, basketball, horse racing, motor sport and tennis — alongside a listings page for the television schedule.[3]

What does Meridiano cover?

The editorial scope is sport first and the domestic calendar above everything else. The site's standing sections are Venezuelan professional baseball, Major League Baseball, football split between the domestic championship and the national team, the NBA, the NFL, Major League Soccer, horse racing, tennis and Formula One, with a separate strand of off-field sports news.[3] Baseball carries the heaviest weight: Meridiano publishes historical pieces on the Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional, including a December 2022 account dating the league's founding to 27 December 1945 and its first game to 12 January 1946 between Magallanes and Venezuela.[8]

Meridiano Televisión is a sport-only channel rather than a general-entertainment service with a sports slot. It was one of eight channels listed as carrying Venezuelan professional baseball during the 2025-26 season, appearing on cable positions 37 and 112 in the guide published by El Estímulo in December 2025.[6] General news, politics and business are not part of the title's remit.

What are Meridiano's reach and standing?

No audited circulation figure for Meridiano could be retrieved for this page. Two structural proxies are available instead. The first is print survival: IPYS Venezuela's April 2021 review of the printed press counted 20 newspapers still circulating nationally, down from 130 the institute had on its register, and recorded Meridiano as appearing Monday to Friday in metropolitan Caracas.[4] The front-page archive Kiosko.net was still posting a daily Meridiano cover in September 2026, the most recent shown being 11 September 2026.[5]

The second is broadcast carriage. Meridiano Televisión held a place in the 2025-26 Venezuelan professional baseball television arrangement alongside the two largest free-to-air networks and the state channel,[6] and was named again in the February 2026 guide to the championship final between Navegantes del Magallanes and Caribes de Anzoátegui.[9] Other Venezuelan outlets cite Meridiano's reporting on domestic baseball, and the title's own archive is used as a reference for league history.[8]

Since when?

Meridiano dates itself to 3 November 1969 and marked its 56th year on 3 November 2025, describing the paper as the start of a brand that later added television and digital platforms.[1] The concession behind Meridiano Televisión was granted to Bloque Dearmas in 1992, and the channel's first transmission was on 5 December 1997.[2] Both of those dates come from the outlet's own pages.

Ownership has been the subject of one public dispute. On 14 November 2014 El Estímulo reported that the weekly Quinto Día had published a claim that Bloque Dearmas — including Meridiano, the daily 2001, its magazines and Meridiano Televisión — was being sold to a minority shareholder named as Víctor Uvieta. The company denied the report the same day, stating that the group “sigue siendo de la Familia De Armas” under Daniel De Armas as president.[7] No confirmation of a transfer was retrieved, and Meridiano's 2025 anniversary page still carries the Bloque Dearmas byline.[1]

Why does Meridiano matter in Venezuela's sport?

Meridiano is the Venezuelan outlet whose name attaches to the domestic sports record across three formats at once. A Venezuelan athlete covered by Meridiano appears in a printed daily distributed in the capital, on a sport-only television channel carried by the country's cable operators, and on a site organised around the national calendar — and the same masthead has been doing so since 1969.[1][3]

Its position is unusual in a market where most printed titles stopped. IPYS Venezuela's 2021 count put the surviving print sector at 20 newspapers and recorded that ten states had lost printed papers entirely; Meridiano was one of four printed titles IPYS recorded as still circulating in metropolitan Caracas.[4] On the broadcast side, its channel sat in the 2025-26 baseball television arrangement with Venevisión, Televen and TVES, which places it among the services through which Venezuelan audiences watched the domestic league.[6] For a reader asking which Venezuelan sports outlet has continuous national presence, Meridiano is the first answer.

References

  1. Meridiano — “Meridiano: 56 años de pasión, deporte y compromiso”, 3 November 2025. Accessed September 2026.
  2. Meridiano — “Meridiano TV cumple 22 años en las pantallas venezolanas”, 5 December 2019. Accessed September 2026.
  3. Meridiano — home page and section index. Accessed September 2026.
  4. IPYS Venezuela — “Balance IPYSve | Medios impresos: entre el olvido y la sobrevivencia”, 26 April 2021. Accessed September 2026.
  5. Kiosko.net — front-page archive, Meridiano (Venezuela). Accessed September 2026.
  6. El Estímulo — “¿Dónde ver la LVBP 2025-2026 por TV? Estos son los canales que transmiten los juegos”, 23 December 2025. Accessed September 2026.
  7. El Estímulo — “Supuesta venta del Bloque de Armas sacude las redes sociales”, 14 November 2014. Accessed September 2026.
  8. Meridiano — “LVBP: 77 años llenos de tradición y mucho beisbol”, 27 December 2022. Accessed September 2026.
  9. El Estímulo — “Magallanes vs Caribes: ¿dónde ver la final de la LVBP por TV?”, 2 February 2026. Accessed September 2026.