Comments on: SciFi to become ‘Syfy’

By: David Knox

David Knox — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:05:39 +0000

Thanks Kilus for links Airlock Alpha and How NBCU kept SciFi rebranding under wraps

By: Kilus

Kilus — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:47:12 +0000

Apparently they couldn’t trademark SyFy either. But they could buy the trademark.

By: avoidz

avoidz — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:22:44 +0000

Looks like Syfylis. Or Siffy. Stupid beyond words.

By: timmy

timmy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:16:05 +0000

Sci Fi has always been more than “just space and aliens” – changing the spelling of that is not going to change the perceptions of those that have no idea.

By: Teddy Bär

Teddy Bär — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:03:49 +0000

Oh my, I can only presume that they figured that this was easier to type one handed….

I wonder if he stuttered when he delivered these pearls of wisdom?

Seriously, someone is getting paid a lot of money to come up with this!

By: chris luke

chris luke — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:11:03 +0000

Can a spelling of a word be camp? ..or are you hearing it in your head with a lisp?.. it just gets spooky. Oh and Farscape.. really loved that show. It was a great showcase for aussie actors, directors and crews. Bring it back!

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:47:14 +0000

No stick to the nerd stuff, nerds are loyal and we will love you forever unless you betray us like this SciFi!!

By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:49:13 +0000

It’s not April Fool’s Day yet is it? What a ridiculous name change.

By: Grinspoon

Grinspoon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:34:07 +0000

I read a while ago an article about how the new management at the sci-fi channel actually quite dislike sci-fi and want to move the channel away from it. They aren’t particularly sci-fi fans, or fans of the shows on the channel, but some how got put in charge of it.

It’s also why they cancelled Stargate Atlantis, even though it had a loyal following. They could only see the benefit of trying to change the franchise into something similar to Battlestar Galactica, hence the new series, Stargate Universe being a completely different format.

This just further goes to push what that article was suggesting, they management doesn’t want to be as niche as sci-fi. Science Fiction as a term covers so much more than spaceships and everyone knows that. The new logo looks like it’s from a pharmaceutical company or something and honestly, changing sci-fi to the spelling a 3 year old would give it, is just utterly retarded.

By: Evil

Evil — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:32:45 +0000

Sci-Fi in the US already shows crap like ECW “wrestling”…it was only a matter of time. With Battlestar finishing next week is there any reason to watch at all anymore?

And the problem isn’t with their name, it’s their programming. Are people suddenly going to get excited by Star Trek and Stargate reruns with a name change?

By: itsross

itsross — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:01:21 +0000

I guess they’re trying to target a younger, web 2.0 crowd?

You know how it’s cool to drop silent letters in words, like Flickr, Tumblr, and umm, yeah, a whole bunch of other sites I can’t think of atm.

Hope they get more tech related content on then…

By: Mydoona

Mydoona — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:47:39 +0000

why is it syfy? what’s the ‘Y’ stand for?
SCI-FI is short for science fiction.
SYFY is just a garbage word.

By: mac

mac — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:20:27 +0000

what a dumb idea, yes you cant tradmark the word sci-fi (i would think you could trademark sci-fi channel though) but when you hear the name sci-fi channel you know exactly what it is, while when you hear syfc you have no idea. also how did you say it, do you read out each letter or say it like one word.

By: Earthquake

Earthquake — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:57:35 +0000

It looks like it’s pronounced siffy to me!

By: Kuttsywood

Kuttsywood — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:45:08 +0000

Well it took yonks for our Discovery Channel to change logos (their doing it on March 29, shh.)

By: Kilus

Kilus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:17:07 +0000

The days of Farscape and Battlestar Galactica are over. Coming soon 2 rednecks hunting UFOs.