According to the NY Times, this coming July, the SciFi Channel is going to change its name to…. wait for it…
“SyFy”
SERIOUSLY
I mean. HUH.
I really am just freaking done with new company and brand names that are made up of nothing more than “funny spellings” and “nonsense words that sound silly”. Freaking done.
First the Sci-Fi channel takes Battlestar Galactica and adds in Baby showers and discussions of which retirement homes have the best brochures (seriously, the most recent episode is about exactly that)…
And now they take the “Sci Fi” out of their name entirely.
Weak. Sauce.
March 16th, 2009 - 12:49 pm
Cable T.V. science fiction is out. Web video science fiction is in. Doesn’t have the budgets, but at least online producers have interesting ideas. Check it out when you’re ready for more bite than “the scifi beach party show”…
March 16th, 2009 - 1:10 pm
What I think is funnier is that they didn’t just pull this name out of thin air. They actually bought it!
There was a site for like 10 years called Syfy Portal, and last month they suddenly changed their name to Airlock Alpha. Coincidence?
March 16th, 2009 - 2:32 pm
Long time reader. First time responder. Love me some Jupiter Broadcasting. Keep up the good work sirs.
March 16th, 2009 - 6:03 pm
CNet claims this is because they want to own the trademark of the channel, and because Sci-Fi is a very generic name, voila! SyFy.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-18603_1-10197108-73.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
March 16th, 2009 - 6:19 pm
In Polish, it is the plural for the word which means dirt, filth, grime, pimple, spot, and…syphilis.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/syf
Sounds appropriate to me.
March 17th, 2009 - 1:05 am
Jeff Jones: read the Airlock Alpha forums, Alpha Lounge, message thread “SciFi -> SyFy”. You hit it right on the head.
March 17th, 2009 - 1:09 am
Bryan: Check out this scifi animation from 2001 called Broken Saints…