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Note: This thread was proposed by Very Sunshine.

Trope Co. Trope of the Week is a trope where programs sell sponsorships for a specific portion of the program. A sports broadcast highlight reel is one example. I found this under the "deprecated naming practices" section of the TRS list. Trope Co. is a parody catalogue on the site, and Trope of the Week is a show in Echo Chamber, so it looks like something it isn't.

The examples list is full of natter, complaining, and example sorting issues, to the point where I can't decide where I should get help. Still, it seems like all the examples need is a good scrub to bring it to modern standards. There are 39 wicks, so it's not starving. During my wick check, I discovered that twelve of the off-page examples were not related to sports or broadcasting. The vast majority of examples on the page refer to stadium sponsors. The wick check may be flawed due to the fact that we don't have pages for sports stadiums.

I propose expanding the trope beyond sports.

Wick check:

Wick Check Started on 2022-10-18. 39 wicks.

    open/close all folders 

     Sports Broadcast Sponsorships (3/39) 
  • Monday Night Football: Not to be confused with Sky Sports' Ford Monday Night Football, which broadcasts English Premier League games.
  • Soccer Saturday: For sponsorship reasons, the show's full name Gilette Soccer Saturday. Jeff and several pundits and reporters can also be seen in adverts for Gilette as a result of this.
  • Backyard Sports: The fictional brand 110% Juice sponsors the Player of the Game segment.

     Broadcasting Sponsorships for things that aren't Sports (9/39)) 

     Sports Sponsorships that aren't Broadcast (9/39) 
  • Retraux:
    • Starting in 2015; the ‘’Bojangles' Southern 500’’ moved from Mother's Day weekend (where it was moved to in 2005) back to its original slot on Labor Day weekend, and to commemorate the move NASCAR came up with the idea of having the race as a "throwback weekend", with 32 of the 43 cars using retro-themed paint schemes and (for the 2015 race) NBC bringing legendary broadcasters Ken Squier, Ned Jarrettnote  and Ned's son Dale while even using 1970's era logos for the broadcast. The concept proved such a hit that NASCAR has made the throwback theme a permanent part of that race.
  • Real Life: The California Speedway (AKA the Auto Club Speedway) in Fontana started becoming this due to declining attendance numbers making it more difficult to fill the grand stands and make such a huge venue worth the upkeep as huge swathes of empty grandstands are just empty space largely doing nothing.
  • Fan Nickname/Sports: "The Blue" – Albertsons Stadium (Bronco Stadium behind the ‘’corporate naming rights’’), Boise State University. So named because of its distinctive blue playing surface.
  • Real Life 0 To F: Ellis Park — the rugby union stadium in Johannesburg (commercially known as Emirates Airline Park) or the horse racing track most notable for being Kentucky's only significant landmark north of the Ohio River.note 
  • Real Life: Paris La Défense Arena, a domed stadium that opened in 2017 as the new home of the rugby club Racing 92. It's not located within either of its geographic identifiers—whether Paris, or the La Défense business district. (The stadium is in a part of the suburb of Nanterre that lies just outside the La Défense boundary.) The name actually came from a sponsorship deal with "Paris La Défense", the company that manages the business district.
  • Other Media: Many sports fans think ‘’stadium sponsorship deals’’ are a relatively-recent (since about The '90s) development where corporations shell out mega dollars to have their name on a sports venue. The Chicago Cubs' "Wrigley Field" is perhaps the earliest example, with its name (owing to both the Wrigley Company and owner William Wrigley Jr.) changing in 1927.
  • British Footy Teams under The New Saints: Originally known as Llansantffraid, this is probably the best-known Cymru Premier club due to a 1990s sponsorship deal with a local computer company which resulted in "The Saints" (as they were nicknamed) becoming the first British football club to rename itself after its sponsor, Total Network Solutions.
  • Collegiate American Football Conferences: The Aztecs opened the new Snapdragon Stadium (Aztec Stadium behind the ‘’sponsorship’’) in 2022.
  • Euro Footy: Along with Switzerland, was one of the joint hosts of the 2008 European Championship. Main clubs: Rapid Wien (from Vienna, most nationally successful team, with 32 league trophies, and the club that launched Happel's career as a player), Austria Wien (trailing behind their rivals Rapid, with 23 wins), Sturm Graz (a recent national powerhouse, with 3 titles - the most recent in 2011) and ‘’Red Bull’’ Salzburg (fka Austria Salzburg before a controversial takeover and rebrand in 2005, winners of 13 of the last 16 titles, with a current streak of nine).

     Sponsorships unrelated to Sports or Broadcasting (12/39) 
Note for the above: These are misplaced, as the trope is not a character trope.

     Other Trope Pages (2/39) 

     Administrivia, Indexing, and Other (2/39) 

     Zero-Context or Lacking Context Examples (3/39) 

Notes:

  • We don't have many work pages for sports broadcast shows, meaning that number may be artificially low.
  • Four of the instances are from incorrect Jurassic World character pages. Seven instances are from the Jurassic World movie.
  • Two entries are on subpages, but not the related work pages
  • Most of the sports non-broadcast entries are the names of staduims.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 2nd 2022 at 4:52:31 AM

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#1: Nov 18th 2022 at 6:30:00 AM

To-do list:

    Original post 
Note: This thread was proposed by Very Sunshine.

Trope Co. Trope of the Week is a trope where programs sell sponsorships for a specific portion of the program. A sports broadcast highlight reel is one example. I found this under the "deprecated naming practices" section of the TRS list. Trope Co. is a parody catalogue on the site, and Trope of the Week is a show in Echo Chamber, so it looks like something it isn't.

The examples list is full of natter, complaining, and example sorting issues, to the point where I can't decide where I should get help. Still, it seems like all the examples need is a good scrub to bring it to modern standards. There are 39 wicks, so it's not starving. During my wick check, I discovered that twelve of the off-page examples were not related to sports or broadcasting. The vast majority of examples on the page refer to stadium sponsors. The wick check may be flawed due to the fact that we don't have pages for sports stadiums.

I propose expanding the trope beyond sports.

Wick check:

Wick Check Started on 2022-10-18. 39 wicks.

    open/close all folders 

     Sports Broadcast Sponsorships (3/39) 
  • Monday Night Football: Not to be confused with Sky Sports' Ford Monday Night Football, which broadcasts English Premier League games.
  • Soccer Saturday: For sponsorship reasons, the show's full name Gilette Soccer Saturday. Jeff and several pundits and reporters can also be seen in adverts for Gilette as a result of this.
  • Backyard Sports: The fictional brand 110% Juice sponsors the Player of the Game segment.

     Broadcasting Sponsorships for things that aren't Sports (9/39)) 

     Sports Sponsorships that aren't Broadcast (9/39) 
  • Retraux:
    • Starting in 2015; the ‘’Bojangles' Southern 500’’ moved from Mother's Day weekend (where it was moved to in 2005) back to its original slot on Labor Day weekend, and to commemorate the move NASCAR came up with the idea of having the race as a "throwback weekend", with 32 of the 43 cars using retro-themed paint schemes and (for the 2015 race) NBC bringing legendary broadcasters Ken Squier, Ned Jarrettnote  and Ned's son Dale while even using 1970's era logos for the broadcast. The concept proved such a hit that NASCAR has made the throwback theme a permanent part of that race.
  • Real Life: The California Speedway (AKA the Auto Club Speedway) in Fontana started becoming this due to declining attendance numbers making it more difficult to fill the grand stands and make such a huge venue worth the upkeep as huge swathes of empty grandstands are just empty space largely doing nothing.
  • Fan Nickname/Sports: "The Blue" – Albertsons Stadium (Bronco Stadium behind the ‘’corporate naming rights’’), Boise State University. So named because of its distinctive blue playing surface.
  • Real Life 0 To F: Ellis Park — the rugby union stadium in Johannesburg (commercially known as Emirates Airline Park) or the horse racing track most notable for being Kentucky's only significant landmark north of the Ohio River.note 
  • Real Life: Paris La Défense Arena, a domed stadium that opened in 2017 as the new home of the rugby club Racing 92. It's not located within either of its geographic identifiers—whether Paris, or the La Défense business district. (The stadium is in a part of the suburb of Nanterre that lies just outside the La Défense boundary.) The name actually came from a sponsorship deal with "Paris La Défense", the company that manages the business district.
  • Other Media: Many sports fans think ‘’stadium sponsorship deals’’ are a relatively-recent (since about The '90s) development where corporations shell out mega dollars to have their name on a sports venue. The Chicago Cubs' "Wrigley Field" is perhaps the earliest example, with its name (owing to both the Wrigley Company and owner William Wrigley Jr.) changing in 1927.
  • British Footy Teams under The New Saints: Originally known as Llansantffraid, this is probably the best-known Cymru Premier club due to a 1990s sponsorship deal with a local computer company which resulted in "The Saints" (as they were nicknamed) becoming the first British football club to rename itself after its sponsor, Total Network Solutions.
  • Collegiate American Football Conferences: The Aztecs opened the new Snapdragon Stadium (Aztec Stadium behind the ‘’sponsorship’’) in 2022.
  • Euro Footy: Along with Switzerland, was one of the joint hosts of the 2008 European Championship. Main clubs: Rapid Wien (from Vienna, most nationally successful team, with 32 league trophies, and the club that launched Happel's career as a player), Austria Wien (trailing behind their rivals Rapid, with 23 wins), Sturm Graz (a recent national powerhouse, with 3 titles - the most recent in 2011) and ‘’Red Bull’’ Salzburg (fka Austria Salzburg before a controversial takeover and rebrand in 2005, winners of 13 of the last 16 titles, with a current streak of nine).

     Sponsorships unrelated to Sports or Broadcasting (12/39) 
Note for the above: These are misplaced, as the trope is not a character trope.

     Other Trope Pages (2/39) 

     Administrivia, Indexing, and Other (2/39) 

     Zero-Context or Lacking Context Examples (3/39) 

Notes:

  • We don't have many work pages for sports broadcast shows, meaning that number may be artificially low.
  • Four of the instances are from incorrect Jurassic World character pages. Seven instances are from the Jurassic World movie.
  • Two entries are on subpages, but not the related work pages
  • Most of the sports non-broadcast entries are the names of staduims.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 2nd 2022 at 4:52:31 AM

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#2: Nov 18th 2022 at 6:30:13 AM

Paging ~Very Sunshine to the thread.

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#3: Nov 18th 2022 at 6:50:06 AM

Anyway, I'm fine with expanding, though I think we should rename to get rid of the use of the deprecated practice of using "trope" as a placeholder. While this trope isn't wick-starved, its wick count is small enough (to the point that the wick check covers all wicks due to there being less than 50) that moving them wouldn't take long.

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#4: Nov 18th 2022 at 7:58:07 AM

As an advertizement trope, I'm not really familiar with it and pretty indifferent on what the action would be.

But I do agree that the name is very confusing so something else may help it.

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#5: Nov 18th 2022 at 8:12:26 AM

Maybe Product Placement Name, Brand Based Name, or Brand Based Naming would work. I suppose the fact that the current name is an in-joke from the site's early days on top of using "trope" as a placeholder is adding to the clunkiness.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 18th 2022 at 10:13:39 AM

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#6: Nov 18th 2022 at 8:17:58 AM

[up] I like Brand Based Name. [tup] to renaming to that.

EDIT: Vote changed, see below comment

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Nov 19th 2022 at 3:00:24 PM

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#9: Nov 19th 2022 at 12:00:07 PM

Thinking about it some more, changing my vote to Product Placement Name, as it is more straightforward.

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#11: Nov 19th 2022 at 3:14:17 PM

Alternatively, we could keep the self-demonstrating title, and change it to something a bit more illustrative, like The Trope Co Sponsored Trope.

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#12: Nov 19th 2022 at 3:43:59 PM

[up] Isn't "trope" in trope names deprecated though? Trope 2000's thread kind of went over that.

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#13: Nov 19th 2022 at 3:45:19 PM

Like Trope-Namer Syndrome, I'd really prefer to not have names with "Trope" in it unless it's an index.

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#14: Nov 19th 2022 at 5:58:06 PM

Product Placement Name works as a rename, but the state of the page is indeed awful. But I also know little about advertising, so I can't tell what examples are even valid, a lot of them sound like general examples to me.

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#15: Nov 19th 2022 at 7:59:49 PM

Mayor, the trope placeholder practice is deprecated. I found it on the "deprecated names" section of Tropes Needing TRS. It does need renaming.

I did do some cross wicking before sending this in.

Edit: There's the page!

Edited by VerySunshine on Nov 19th 2022 at 9:07:03 AM

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#17: Nov 19th 2022 at 8:30:35 PM

I could go through the page itself if we wanted to see what the examples are. At a glance, most of the examples that aren't cross wicked are the names of professional or semi-professional sports teams, or names of stadiums. Our standards for what was considered tropable media were different when they were added. I'm uncertain if they would count now.

By the way, I renamed the wick check folders to make more grammatical sense.

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#18: Nov 20th 2022 at 12:59:18 AM

[up] Isn't "trope" in trope names deprecated though? Trope 2000's thread kind of went over that.

Yes, per How To Name A Trope and Everything You Wanted to Know About Changing Names. The Trope Co Sponsored Trope wouldn't be a clear name anyway because on top of using deprecated naming practice, it fails to get across the part about being named after a brand.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 20th 2022 at 3:01:39 AM

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#19: Nov 20th 2022 at 11:18:29 PM

In real life, the term used for this kind of sponsorship is "naming rights". Would Naming Rights Sponsorship work?

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#20: Nov 20th 2022 at 11:28:04 PM

[up]I think Naming Rights Based Name might work (though admittedly, it's kind of clunky), since this is more about something being named after a brand than it is about the sponsorship that led to the product being named after a brand.

Maybe Sponsorship Based Name would work if it hasn't already been suggested, or Sponsored Name or Sponsored Naming.

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#21: Nov 21st 2022 at 6:19:26 AM

So, do we have enough consensus to rename, or is a crowner needed?

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#22: Nov 21st 2022 at 6:29:01 AM

I hooked one.

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#23: Nov 21st 2022 at 5:06:30 PM

[tup]Renaming and expanding.

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#24: Nov 24th 2022 at 2:52:30 AM

Calling crowner in favor of the following:

  • Rename

  • Expand the trope beyond sports

Rename crowner will be hooked shortly.

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Trope Repair Shop: TropeCoOfTheWeek rename crowner
24th Nov '22 2:54:49 AM

Crown Description:

The previous crowner has ruled in favor of expanding Trope Co Of The Week to cover non-sports examples and renaming the trope. This crowner's purpose is to decide on a name for the trope.

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