SciFi Channel changing name to SyFy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29726865/

SciFi has been turning into the wresting paranormal channel for awhile now so they might as well change the name.


TVLand also might as well change it name to Pathetic Reality Garbage Channel

Since they are off in woo-woo land half the time anyway.

TV is just mindnumbingly bad these days.

Bible Code stuff, Mayan Doomsday stuff, . . .

How the heck is that history, when the "predictions" haven't happened yet?

(Well, in the case of the Bible Code, they haven't actually predicted anything, so maybe that is history. The history of making things up after the fact.)
GAC

Or would that be too Dr. Seuss?

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It's meaningless and doesn't even accomplish the intended purpose of distancing themselves from their previous image. "SyFy" is still pronounced "SciFi," no?

I smell marketing "genius" at work. As Bill Hicks observed, they are some of the most useless people on Earth.

Bill Hicks on Marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

Still useless, but apparently they wanted something copyright-able.

The only show I watched on SciFi er SyFy Channel was Battlestar Galactica but that ends Friday.

They look like they are made with a budget of about $1000. :rofl:

I also get to see what happened to the popular actors from the 80s and 90s. LOL!

Now they're coming out with Cougar next month. 40-something year old woman choosing from younger men. Kinda like The Cougar Bachelorette.

Shows about tree loggers and ice road truckers on the History Channel? Give me a friggin' break!

A&E sucks too.

And Most Haunted on the Travel Channel is a joke. It's only watchable for the laughs you'll have every time they scream because someone off camera pushed a door closed or made a sound, and then act like it was a ghost.

as soon as my DTV converter coupons come in, we'll have three available PBS channels from broadcast stations. The basic 20 channel cable package that I've been living with for nearly the last two years has provided about all I used to get from Discovery, History, Learning, and A&E channels when I was in the Northwest. And the twenty bucks a month will buy two six-packs of great craft brewed beer!

By the way, did the geek brains at SciFi Channel ever figure that people might pronounce SyFy as "siffy"? Sounds like a sexually transmitted disease...

Why do you hate America?

gives us the most pathetic excuse for intelligent entertainment that can be rounded up. Scifi is one of the more disturbing disappointments that I have experienced in the past few years.

The channel was a hell of a lot better when it was just space and aliens.

NBC/Universal (parent company of SFC) plans to export SciFi Channel to international markets. One problem, they can't copyright the SciFi name in many of these markets. Hence the name change, they can't copyright "SciFi", but they can copyright "SyFy".

Part of the reason they're eliminating the "sci fi" part of the name is so that they can (supposedly) get away with showing anything else. When one of the justifications for the name change talks about actively getting away from the connotations of science fiction, you gotta figure they're just trying to make the whole channel something else.

Coming next year: Monday Night Rehabilitation and Ow! My Balls.

begging to be included. The fantasy fans and writers weren't quite willing although they begrudgingly allowed them in. Doesn't this extend both ways?

Sci-Fi can't be trademarked and profited on. Syfy, however, can be.

The Science Fiction CHannel has been on its way down for a long time.
Science Fiction lovers such as myself are kind of partial to aliens, space ships,
and a host of other curiosities.
When I first encountered the sci fi channel there were the classic series and films.
That's my meat and drink. They're gone now.
There are bright spots. Battlestar Galactica and Doctor WHo are good.
Although they butcher out several minutes of each Who episode.
And some of their original movies are worth seeing.
But the channel has devolved.
THe cool stuff is gone.( My favorite was the Traci Lordes wheel bumper.)
And the crap is in. I'll start with the worst: ECW wrestling.
WTF? It didn't even have a sci fi theme.
Nerds like me don't enjoy the Steroid Club for Men.
Professional wrestling is something that belongs on the other channels.
They tried running Law and Order special victims unit. Really.
And they've gone completely over the top with the animated banners.
Sci Fi was among the last to plaster ugly advertising over the entertainment.
But they're learning fast. 1/8 screen of animated distraction so far.
So it won't be long until the only sci fi channel in my house is on my old
treasured time shift recordings.

That's how a lot of us old SF fen think of "Sci-Fi"..

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skiffy
Derogatory term for bad sci-fi movies, or the term sci-fi itself.

Edited due to early morning caffeine deficit disorder.

There is an plethora of great SciFi movies out there and what do they show? their b-moviecrap!! it's the fucking SciFi channel and they show the lamest shit..I watch Enterprise and Battlestar, that is it.