In the old days, it was pretty simple to know what you were going to get from the cable network you were watching. Want to say something food-related? Food Network’s for you. Maybe some cartoons? Cartoon Network then. A little music, perhaps? Try Music Television. It was simple. It was good. So, of course, it changed.

Feeling a little boxed in, cable networks that used to be devoted to one thing and one thing only decided to branch out into things that were not in their title. The Cartoon Network started showing non-animated films like Spider-man and Cats vs. Dogs and hoped no one would notice. MTV replaced all their music programming with reality television and game shows, yet oddly choose to continue using the word “music” in their name. TechTV became G4 and replaced most of their tech-related programming that no one was watching with mindless idiocy that no one is still watching. Television suddenly got that much more complicated.

One of these networks was the Sci-Fi Channel, who, inexplicably enough, used to just run Sci-Fi programming. That consisted mostly of old episodes of Star Trek, the Twilight Zone, Dark Shadows and Flash Gordon, which wouldn’t exactly qualify as must-see programming, but at least they weren’t lying to you. But then, as time went on, the definition of Sci-Fi had to be stretched further and further to include cheaply-made disaster or monster of the week Sci-Fi Original movies and Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, until it reached a breaking point when they started showing professional wrestling. Now, no longer wishing to be limited to the sci-fi genre by their Sci-Fi name, the suits at the Sci-Fi Channel decided to rebrand themselves in an effort to make themselves more viable in today’s programming market. So this week, the Sci-Fi Channel officially became:

The SyFy channel.

So now, instead of being Sci-Fi, they’re SyFy. Notice the difference there? No more of those “i”s or “silent c” crap. “Y”s are the wave of the future. Screw Sci-Fi. SyFy’s all about SyFy now. So now, when the network suits have to tell people which channel they work for, they won’t be embarressed to say that they work for the Sci-Fi Channel, but will instead be able to proudly state that they work at SyFy.

On a related note, I am no longer Erik Hagen. I am now, instead, Aric Hagen. I spell my name differently now, so I am a completely different person. Good for me.

-Aric Hagen

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