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Top sports media in Uruguay

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

These are the outlets that cover sport in Uruguay — 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.

1. TenfieldBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 565,439 — The company at the centre of Uruguayan football's commercial rights since 1998; in the AUF tender resolved in December 2025 it retained streaming, production and marketing lots for 2026–2029. 2. ReferíGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 33,605 — The sports desk of El Observador, published on a path of the newspaper's own domain, and the source of the Kantar Ibope and Factum audience figures cited across this list. 3. Televisión Nacional UruguayBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 483,146 — Canal 5, the television channel of the Servicio de Comunicación Audiovisual Nacional, carried 32 of the 104 matches of the 2026 World Cup; the Kantar Ibope ranking of the first ten months of 2025 put a match on it first. 4. Sport 890Specialist title · Radio · Tranco 609,611 — A Montevideo sports radio station on 890 AM whose weekday schedule runs from football talk to a daily basketball programme; Factum measured it at 0.36 rating points in 2025. 5. BúsquedaGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 313,531 — A Montevideo weekly whose Deportes desk reported the AUF's 2026–2029 television tender lot by lot, with the annual values of each, in December 2025. 6. Montevideo PortalGeneral sports coverage · News site · Tranco 14,139 — A Montevideo news site that marked thirty years in October 2025, with a Deportes desk, a football vertical called Futbol.uy and a television section that reports Kantar IBOPE figures.