{"id":736,"date":"2004-06-22T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/06\/commercial_nami\/"},"modified":"2004-06-22T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T14:57:09","slug":"commercial_nami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/commercial_nami\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Naming of Sports Stadia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaweek.co.uk\/News.aspx?Action=-617781463&#038;ID=34126193-a49d-42c6-88ce-70ff4cc018d9\">this article<\/a> from Media Week has the findings of some research that says that fans don&#8217;t mind company-sponsored stadia.<br \/>\nWhat a load of nonsense. This research was conducted for Arsenal, and is obviously paving the way for some blue-chip company to pay many millions for the right to call the new Arsenal stadium something like &#8220;O2 Highbury&#8221; or &#8220;Nike Highbury&#8221;.<br \/>\nPersonally, I think that this is pretty vulgar. Highbury has always been one of the finer stadia in the country, indeed the East and West stands are listed. I&#8217;d like to see the full research methodology to see exactly how this was question was asked. As the Media Week article states, none of the fans will use the name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this article from Media Week has the findings of some research that says that fans don&#8217;t mind company-sponsored stadia. What a load of nonsense. This research was conducted for Arsenal, and is obviously paving the way for some blue-chip company to pay many millions for the right to call the new Arsenal stadium something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}