This is not science fiction TV news per se, but well, it is about TV, and it is sci-fi (well sort of), and it’s kind of fun. Anyways, as you may know, the Sci Fi Channel recently announced that it was changing its name from The Sci Fi Channel to The SyFy Channel for business purposes — mostly so it can brand and copyright the name, something it couldn’t do with its original name. One of the channel’s original founders Mitchell Rubenstein (who co-founded the channel in the early ’90s with Laurie Silvers) has spoken out, and he doesn’t sound too happy about the name change.
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It's dumb to me, because I don't feel that the name change will bring any quality to what feels to be a stale network, who's focus has been shifting from quality science fiction television and movies, and becoming more of a me too network with reality shows that aren't of the genre and poorly crafted made for SciFi movies. If Sci Fi Channel had announced a round table of top talent writers and directors, focusing the money away from copycat creature movies, and would become home to other networks quality but canceled series (ie 4400, Journeyman, Surface, etc), then I could be excited. Where is the vision for legacy, not just trademark and marketing. I've no inclination right now to buy a SyFy t-shirt at the SyFy online store . . and I don't wonder why.