Goodbye Sci Fi, Hello Syfy!

If people understood Sci-Fi, they’d understand that shows like CSI and its spawn are SCi-Fi. Seriously, the only difference between these jokers and the crew of the Enterprise, is that they are playing with non-existent future-technology in a crime lab instead of on a spaceship.

The Sci-Fi network would be well within their mandate to fill out their programming with 2 or 3 hours of Police Sci-fi.

syfy in Polish mean facial spots or dirts

They can call it anything they want, but I find 99% of their programming unwatchable.

Sounds like 90% of the rest of the channels on cable:

HGTV – 90% decorating crap.
BIO – hardly every shows biographies
History Channel – changed because they wanted to show things that “make history”.. whatever
Noggin – which started as a really cool smart channel for kids and showed old school kids tv – is now just The “n” – which shows teeny shows all day
DIY – Barely shows do it yourself stuff any more

All these channels started to focus on a genre, and now that there is so much competition they all want to branch out. Even the Discovery Channel’s logo is just D now, and dont even get me started on where all the learning went on TLC.

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“Y” for all the cheesY movies they make.

I can’t help but wonder if my humble rants, like this one, made any difference on their decision to change it. How exciting!

Syfy is pretty bad, but their slogan — “Imagine greater” — can anything be more stupid than that? Imagine greater what? Greater grammar, perhaps?

“Syfy” – the future nickname for “crap”.

Example: “Honey, I think the baby just Syfy’d his diaper”.

So start the trend now – you too could be greater in the future (or at least imagine that you are).

Is it because “Sci Fi Channel Original” is now synonymous with “as bad as Gattica” or “no better than Matrix: Revolutions”"

Sorry, just can’t bash Revolutions enough. That gash is still bleedin’…

“Sounds like 90% of the rest of the channels on cable:”

Right on jason3fc, but how could you forget:

MTV–Doesn’t play music videos

I love the corporate jargon but lets face it. You cannot trademark and protect the term Sci Fi. Its a genre and has probably caused problems with them for years. Something unique that still verbally conveys the same meaning “SyFy” on the other hand, can be much more easily protected legally. Its all about the money and branding.
Frankly it is insulting for them to say that the Science Fiction community is so daft that they do not understand the true breadth of Science Fiction. Besides, technically SyFy means nothing and still sounds like the same channel. Therefore in a conversation either term would evoke the same image to the listener.

Aww, now I guess they’ll have to do away with the cool “iF” commercials.

“The principal reason the idea kept coming up, Mr. Howe said, was a belief “the Sci Fi name is limiting.”

Yeah, right. Limiting like all of those awful C and B movies they keep showing. But at least they’re giving porn stars a chance to work in legitimate theater…

Syfy? Fail. I wonder what marketing genius came up with that one?

Sci Fi was 90% unwatchable. Now that it’s SyFy there’s no doubt the programming will be much improved.

Put some more lipstick on that pig.

…what?
They just changed two letters — technically one. What’s the big change?

The only show i watch on SciFi is Ghost Hunters… and not very often at that. Paranormal state FTW.

Somehow even changing it to SyFy is not going to explain wrestling on the channel. Or ghost hunters for that matter. Who watches that stuff??????

Awh I have fond memories of when the Sci-fi channel was brand new. I was just a teen in 1992 visiting my grandparents for the summer. They had this MASSIVE sized dish satellite in the yard. The thing was expensive, and it got so many weird channels. All those channels didn’t even come to our area for like another 3-4 years. I used to LOVE staying up all night watching the Sci-fi channel. That same summer, we went to a fleamarket and I got a big box full of old Asimov science fiction magazines (from the 80′s)for like $2 too. I was probably the nerdiest girl alive that year, but it was a great time.

Bye bye scifi, you’ve been cool but dying for a while now. Hello Syfy. I assume you’ll be as retarded as you sound.

http://www.nosyfyf.com has contact info. on where to complain.

And here’s an article about the channel president from a year ago http://www.jackmyers.com/commentary/lunch-at-michaels/16847961.html and how he is going to bring back Farscape and launch other sci-fi pilots…and clearly that didn’t work so he thought a name change would work.

Changing the name doesn’t address the real issues here.