What’s the deal with stadium naming rights?
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers, will be renamed Crypto.com Arena this month. The news made quite a splash for the cryptocurrency exchange. And it left one listener wondering how naming rights work. We look at the history of these deals and how they happen. Plus, we answer your questions about the cost of switching from gas to electric appliances, why people want to abolish the Federal Reserve and if the two-week notice is really necessary.
And finally, we’ll take some time at the end to say farewell our friend and co-host, Molly Wood.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “To Decarbonize Households, America Needs Incentives for Electric Appliances” from the Center for American Progress
- “There’s a battle over your gas stove, climate change and health” from NPR
- “Naming rights: Balancing art and science” from Sports Business Journal
- “Staples Center to become Crypto.com Arena in reported $700 million naming rights deal” from ESPN
- “The Changing Landscape Of Stadium Naming Rights Deals” from Forbes
- “Is giving two weeks notice outdated?” from Marketplace
- “The great resignation: Millions of Americans tell their bosses ‘I quit'” from Morning Brew
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