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Top sports media in Nicaragua

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

These are the outlets that cover sport in Nicaragua — 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. La Prensa (Nicaragua)General sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 125,280 — Nicaraguan daily that dates its first issue to 2 March 1926; RSF records no print edition since police entered its premises in 2021, and EFE reports most of its newsroom in exile. 2. TN8Broadcaster · Television · Tranco 355,898 — News brand whose live-stream page describes it as Canal 8 Nicaragua and whose site dates itself to 30 October 2013; its sports output runs under the name 8 Deportivo. 3. Canal 4Broadcaster · Television · Tranco 736,521 — Managua television channel that signs its site “Canal 4 Noticias de Nicaragua y el Mundo”; it reported Nicaragua as host of the WBSC U-23 Baseball World Cup, 6–15 November 2026. 4. Viva Nicaragua Canal 13Broadcaster · Television · not in the Tranco top million — Television channel whose site is signed “Viva Nicaragua Canal Trece, Celeste S.A”; in September 2026 it reported the Liga Profesional Claro 2026-2027 draft and FENIFUT’s Nations League plans.