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Jul 9, 2009, 7:21:57 AM7/9/09
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In a recent online chat, a Sci-Fi Channel/ SyFy executive answered the
following question:


Q) Help me understand. Name one new project you can do as Syfy that
wouldn't have felt right as Sci Fi.

A) Syfy is about catching up to where our programming mix is, not
about changing it.


I think this is the most honest answer I've ever seen come from a
Cable channel executive. The Sci-Fi Channel is *not* sci-fi anymore.
Now it's some weird amalgam of new age mumbo-jumbo (Ghosthunters) with
some fantasy thrown in, a bit of reality programming, a splash of
science fiction, and wrestling (???).


Their programming is a mess of stuff, therefore they changed their
name to a mess of letters - s y f y - Looked from that perspective I
agree the name needed to be changed. "s y f y" is more honest than
"SciFi".


Now the next step is for us geeks is to go out and create a REAL
science fiction channel. It can play those classics from the 40s/50s
as well as modern stuff like Outer Limits or Babylon 5 or Masters of
SF.


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