No, that’s Telemundo.
“Syfy”
Incredible marketing fail. Do self-professed geeks with some background/context on what’s being sold not infiltrate these professions at all?
Sigh. Fie!!
This particular member of the female audience doesn’t watch We or Oxygen or Lifetime. Of course, I don’t watch TV much anyway. I would watch a great deal more, if there was something worth watching available. While the stereotypical F/SF reader/consumer is a geeky teenage male, that hasn’t been the fact for decades. Long gone are the days when Alice Mary Norton had to adopt a male nom de plume in order to get her books published, carried, and sold.
I’ve never seen much SF or fantasy on the SciFi channel. I have seen a lot of total crap, though.
I’ll use science fiction, but NOT sci-fi. My grandfather (who introduced me to the genre, and aided and abetted my reading of it) taught me better. SF is a way of distinguishing between “Alien Supergator” and “Enemy Mine”. One is sci-fi, the other is SF. Sci-fi was an abbreviation of science fiction originally, but it has come to mean (to some of us) that part of SF/fantasy that is total crap.
Winner.
Except it hasn’t. The only people that think sci-fi means “low grade science fiction” as opposed to “all science fiction” are the people that already hate sci-fi as a term.
Given that their new tagline is “Imagine Greater”, I’m guessing there’s been a marked decrease in the collective IQ of the bigwigs at Sci-Fi errr… SyFy.
(tho I suppose it’s just barely better than “Think Different”)
It just takes some teaching to dispel the misconceptions. Still, it raises my hackles whenever I describe my enthusiasm for interspecies erotic burlesque and someone dares call it a “donkey show.”
Actually, no. Although there has been SOME marginal programming, the vast majority of the SciFi Channel’s programming has been SciFi and fantasy. Check the schedule sometime.
That’s “fymynyst wymyn,” pig-toad! 
Let’s see, I’m watching Enterprise right now, Stargate SG-1 is coming up, Star Trek TNG is gonna be on for three hours on prime time … really, you people need to start reading the schedule …
Holy shit, don’t sentence me to watching that shite … I cant handle estrogen driven programming. I am more inclined to grab a horror or action flick when our scrounging movies. My idea of hell would be a 24 hour rotation of 27 Dresses, Wedding Planner and anything with Nora Roberts in the title…:eek:
As she said, crap.
Speaking as a Geek and a Dysfunctional Fanboy, I’m insulted. (I live in my own house, but I spend as much time in the basement as possible, to make up for it.)
The SciFi channel has come up with some good programming (picking up MST3K, The Dune miniseries), a lot of stuff I don’t care for but a lot of people like (BSG, f’rinstance), some attempted SF/Fantasy that turned out bad (Riverworld, Earthsea), and lots of absolute garbage. But at least they sorta kinda tried to do science fiction. Now they’re the Wrestling Ghost network. I expect to see Scooby-Doo.
That might be a legitimate concern if there were even the slightest possibility of such a thing happening. Under what imaginable circumstances would this occur?
Well, that settles that. Let’s all go over to G4, that channel will never do anything like thi…
Oh. You mean, it’s no longer " TV for gamers" ? "but rather “TV thats plugged in” ? [[ I mean, aren’t all TVs plugged in?]]
(Ok, I was gonna joke about this, but actually typing THAT tag line, sounds kinda stupid out of context now. )
The point remains, the “other” geek channel wouldnt Canibalize itsel…
Oh, yeah, it did.
Anyone else in here up for getting Revision 3 and Twit back on TV ? ((You should know what I mean, I want Leo, Pat, and Kevin Rose back on TV))
Funny. I thought TV would die out in time. I didnt think “The Suits” would accelerate the demise.
But Seriously, G4 is turning more and more into what Sci Fi was. G4 has Current season LOST and Heroes. It did have some Episodes of Star Trek for a while…
But Syfy? I give that name a month;
- It will go back
- The channel will die completely.
After reading the press release:
[SNIP]
Syfy ushers in a new era of unlimited imagination, exceptional experiences and greater entertainment that paves the way for us to truly become a global lifestyle brand."
Syfy – unlike the generic entertainment category “sci-fi” - firmly establishes a uniquely ownable trademark that is portable across all non-linear digital platforms and beyond, from Hulu to iTunes. Syfy also creates an umbrella brand name that can extend into new adjacent businesses under the Syfy Ventures banner, such as Syfy Games, Syfy Films and Syfy Kids.
Additionally, as the Channel’s footprint expands rapidly around the globe, aiming to reach more than 50 international channels by the end of next year, Syfy meets the need of a globally relevant, trademarkable brand that stands for something unique to the brand in each territory.
[SNIP]
Ok. If they are going to pull a " Wii " Like name, that will stay the same across languages and cultures, then they might have an actual valid reason to do this.
I hate the Name. Hopefully the Direction won’t go the same way.
Then again, it is kinda Ironic that the one thing that changed from the " if " Advertising was not the items in metamorphosis but the Brand name.
Apparently not in marketing.
If you don’t use scientifiction you’re a neofan. If it’s good enough for Uncle Hugo, it’s good enough for me. 
SF is just an abbreviation. I believe Heinlein liked Speculative Fiction back in the '50s, but I’ll have to look up his article in the Advent collection to be sure. It did get turned a bit pretentious during New Wave time, I’ll grant you.
But as for sci-fi, I don’t recall any magazine with the term “sci-fi” in its title. I don’t have any in my collection, and I’ve been through the Day Checklist often enough that I think I’d remember seeing one. It might have honest roots, but today it stands for crap. I vaguely recall Harlan Ellison going quite batshit about the term.
Hey, I DID graduate with a degree in Marketing back in Dec 2007. I’m Trying to get into advertising.