Prime Minister Keir Starmer urges TNT Sports to make Champions League final free to view
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged TNT Sports to make the Champions League final free to view for all fans. He expressed concern that the match, featuring Arsenal and Paris St-Germain, is behind a paywall for the first time in the UK. Starmer believes that supporters should not have to pay to watch such a significant event in football.
- ▪Keir Starmer is an Arsenal fan and the Prime Minister of the UK.
- ▪The Champions League final will be behind a paywall for the first time in the UK.
- ▪Starmer wrote an open letter to TNT Sports urging them to make the final free to watch.
3 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 5 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Starmer urges TNT to screen Champions League final for free — Financial Times — Companies
- ▪ Starmer urges TNT to make Champions League final free-to-air — BBC Sport
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