Talkin' bout change, the Sci Fi channel is ditching the name they had for over two decades for something new: Syfy. Yes, you read that right. Syfy.
Why? Because "Sci Fi" is too limiting, apparently:
The principal reason the idea kept coming up, Mr. Howe said, was a belief “the Sci Fi name is limiting.”
“If you ask people their default perceptions of Sci Fi, they list space, aliens and the future,” he added. “That didn’t
capture the full landscape of fantasy entertainment: the paranormal, the supernatural, action and adventure, superheroes.”
Now, if they only have a fat man as a logo .. Link - via io9
The Sci-Fi network would be well within their mandate to fill out their programming with 2 or 3 hours of Police Sci-fi.
And no, I don't want to hear about how good BSG is.
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.
"Y" for all the cheesY movies they make.
GOOD RIDDANCE IDIOTS.
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).
Sorry, just can't bash Revolutions enough. That gash is still bleedin'...
"CSI:Stargate"
Right on jason3fc, but how could you forget:
MTV--Doesn't play music videos
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.
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?
Put some more lipstick on that pig.
They just changed two letters -- technically one. What's the big change?
Guess I failed.
More here: http://www.semanticargument.com/?p=175#more-175
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.
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.