About Meridiano TV

Meridiano TV

Overview

Meridiano TV, formally Meridiano Televisión, is Venezuela's 24-hour sports television network, broadcasting from Caracas. Launched on 5 December 1997, it is the country's only dedicated national sports channel, owned by Bloque De Armas, the Venezuelan media group that also owns the sports newspaper Diario Meridiano and the newspaper Diario 2001. Its schedule is built around live sport — above all baseball, Venezuela's national pastime — together with football, basketball and a daily sports news bulletin.

For Venezuelan sports fans, Meridiano TV is the home of the domestic game. It transmits the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), Major League Baseball, Venezuelan first-division football, the Spanish La Liga and the UEFA Champions League, among other competitions, and its news bulletin, Noticiero Meridiano, runs three times a day. Its website, meridiano.net, was showing 2026–27 LVBP results when it was fetched on 24 October 2026, confirming a channel still broadcasting live sport in the current season.

The channel's identity is inseparable from the Bloque De Armas group and from the Meridiano newspaper brand, which dates to 1969. Where general-entertainment channels treat sport as one strand among many, Meridiano TV treats it as the whole schedule, and its presenters and commentators are sports specialists. That focus has given it a loyal audience among Venezuelan sports fans, even as the country's economic crisis has squeezed the sports broadcasting market.

History

Meridiano Televisión was launched on 5 December 1997 as a privately owned television network in Venezuela, exclusively dedicated to national and international sports. Its founder is recorded as Dr. Andrés De Armas, of the De Armas family that owns Bloque De Armas. Some older listings give 1996 as the channel's launch year, but the more recent and detailed record dates the launch to December 1997, and this profile follows that date.

The channel grew out of the Meridiano newspaper brand. Bloque De Armas was created in 1969 as a holding company for the businesses of Armando De Armas, who had launched the distribution firm Distribuidora Continental in 1947 and Editorial América in 1960; 1969 also saw the launch of the sports newspaper Diario Meridiano, while Diario 2001 followed in 1973. The television channel extended that sports publishing tradition into broadcasting, at a time when Venezuela's television market was dominated by general-entertainment networks and the state channels, and no dedicated sports channel existed.

Meridiano TV marked its 14th anniversary in 2011 as, in its own description, the specialist in sports, and it has continued to broadcast through Venezuela's economic crisis and the contraction of its advertising market. Its terrestrial signal is on UHF channel 37 in Caracas, with a digital signal on channel 23.3, and it is carried on cable systems nationally. Its coverage of the LVBP, in particular, has kept it central to Venezuelan sporting life: baseball is the country's most popular sport, and the channel's live broadcasts of league games, together with its studio analysis, make it the first port of call for fans during the winter baseball season.

The channel's recent output confirms its continued operation. Its website carried 2026–27 LVBP results when it was fetched on 24 October 2026, showing a channel covering the current baseball season as it unfolds. That currency matters: in a market where several Venezuelan outlets have closed or moved online-only, Meridiano TV remains a linear television channel with a daily sports schedule.

Programming and Content

Meridiano TV's schedule is sport, all day. Its most-watched programmes are its news bulletin, Noticiero Meridiano, broadcast three times a day, and its basketball programme, Solo Basket. Around those anchors, the channel carries live coverage of the sports that matter most to Venezuelan audiences: Major League Baseball and the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, Venezuelan first-division football, the Spanish La Liga, the UEFA Champions League and, in past seasons, the UEFA European Championship. Its older listings also record coverage of the AFF Cup and the AFC Cup, reflecting the breadth of its international sports rights at the time.

The channel's style has been compared to that of ESPN, in that it combines live events with studio analysis, highlights, interviews and debate. Its commentators and presenters are sports journalists, and its output is aimed at fans who follow Venezuelan and international sport closely. Baseball dominates the winter months, when the LVBP season runs, while football fills the rest of the year, with the channel's website providing results, tables and news between broadcasts.

Meridiano TV's digital output extends its broadcast schedule. Its website, meridiano.net, carries sports news, results and video, and is updated through the day during the baseball and football seasons. For fans who cannot watch live, the site's results service — including the 2026–27 LVBP standings visible in October 2026 — is a daily reference.

Audience and Reach

Meridiano TV is a national network, broadcast terrestrially on UHF channel 37 in Caracas and on digital channel 23.3, and carried on cable systems across Venezuela. A listing of Venezuelan television networks records 16 full-power affiliates for the channel, reflecting its national footprint. Its audience is Venezuelan sports fans, above all baseball fans, and its reach extends to the Venezuelan diaspora through its website and online video.

No recent audited audience figures for the channel are published, and this profile does not assert any. What is documented is the channel's position: it is Venezuela's only dedicated sports television network, and its coverage of the LVBP gives it a central place in the country's sporting calendar. For advertisers and sponsors in Venezuelan sport, it remains the broadcast home of the domestic game, and for fans, its studio output and live coverage are part of the ritual of following a season.

Digital Presence

Meridiano TV's website, meridiano.net, is its main digital outlet, carrying sports news, results, tables and video. It was showing 2026–27 LVBP results when it was fetched on 24 October 2026, evidence of a site updated through the current season. The channel is also active on social platforms, where clips of its coverage and its news output reach audiences who follow sport on their phones.

The channel's digital presence matters because Venezuelan sports audiences, like audiences everywhere, increasingly follow results online between broadcasts. Meridiano.net's role as a results and news service, alongside its broadcast schedule, keeps the Meridiano brand present through the day, not only during live events.

Ownership and Organisation

Meridiano TV is owned by Bloque De Armas, the Venezuelan media company founded on 8 January 1969 by Armando De Armas and headquartered in Caracas. The group also owns the newspapers Diario 2001 and Diario Meridiano, and its chief executive is recorded as Andrés De Armas Silva. The channel's general management has been associated with Juan Andrés Daza, and Armando Rafael De Armas has been recorded as its general director, though this profile does not assert current office-holders beyond what is documented.

Bloque De Armas itself has a long history in Venezuelan media. Armando De Armas built a publishing business from the 1940s, expanded into the United States in 1965 with Spanish-language magazine titles, acquired the Cuban fashion magazine Vanidades in 1967, and formed an alliance with the Mexican media company Televisa in 1993 to print and publish magazines through Editorial Televisa Venezuela. The group's sports newspaper, Diario Meridiano, founded on 3 November 1969, remains the print sibling of the television channel, and the two outlets share the Meridiano brand and a focus on Venezuelan sport.

Contact and Availability

Meridiano TV is headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, and broadcasts in Spanish as a 24-hour sports network on UHF channel 37 in Caracas and on digital channel 23.3, as well as on cable systems nationally. Its website is meridiano.net, where its sports news and results are published daily, including coverage of the current LVBP season. Its news bulletin, Noticiero Meridiano, airs three times a day, and its live sports schedule continues as of October 2026.