naming rights

Fans and spectators walk to the entrance of Chicago's Comiskey Park on April 9, 1990, for the opening day of the final Major League Baseball season there.

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Opinion: Corporate ballpark names just don't have that special ring

10:18am August 19, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon ponders stadium naming rights: how relatively inexpensive it is for companies to link their brands to major league ballparks and football fields.

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Signage for the FTX Arena, where the Miami Heat basketball team plays, is seen illuminated on Saturday. The rapid collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX into bankruptcy has driven arena owner Miami-Dade County to seek a break in its naming rights deal with FTX.

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Miami-Dade County, stuck in a 19-year contract with FTX, seeks to rename its arena

7:50pm November 24, 2022

The county, which owns the arena where the Miami Heat play, wants a bankruptcy judge to let it end its $135 million contract with the failed cryptocurrency company so it can find a new sponsor.

The John Hancock Center, one of Chicago's most famous skyscrapers, must change its name.

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Chicago's Iconic John Hancock Center To Lose Its Name

3:56pm February 13, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

One thing is clear: Whichever company buys the building's naming rights, getting Chicagoans to change what they call it is another matter.