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230 channels
Dominican television runs on a hybrid of local passion and imported gloss. The big private networks, Telemicro, Color Visión, and Telecentro, drive the prime-time schedule with telenovelas, variety shows, and lively talk formats that mix celebrity gossip with political banter. News is a battleground: morning shows blend hard headlines with cooking segments, while evening newscasts lean into dramatic crime reporting and partisan debate. There's a strong religious streak too, nearly a fifth of all channels are faith-based, broadcasting everything from Pentecostal sermons to Catholic masses, reflecting the country's deep-rooted Christianity. Music channels are a constant presence, featuring the three sounds that define Dominican identity: merengue, bachata, and now reggaeton. You'll find live DJ sets and video countdowns running 24/7, often with minimal commercial interruption. Sports culture revolves around baseball. The winter league, LIDOM, is treated with the seriousness of a national holiday, and every game is broadcast live on multiple channels. In contrast, imported content, Hollywood movies, US series, anime, comes almost exclusively dubbed into Latin American Spanish, though some cable packages carry English original audio. What sets the Dominican market apart from its Caribbean neighbors is the sheer density of general-entertainment and religious channels relative to population size. IPTV and cable dominate; over-the-air reception is still common in rural areas, but the digital shift is accelerating rapidly.