What is with the ridiculous channel names ?

Liam Byrne

First we had Dave +1 changing to the too-clever-for-its-own-good "Dave ja vu" - making it harder to spot in the EPG - and Gold changing to "Go On Laugh Daily" by putting dots between the letters.

And now the "exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin" Sci-Fi channel is called something ridiculous like "SyFy", while still pronouncing it....."Sci-Fi" but looking like some ridiculous illiterate text-speak.

Why can't they leave well enough alone ?

John mac

yesterday once more. :D:D

xsiborg

ahh thats meaannn, bloody brilliant though, gave me a laugh first thing this morning, but OP i know what you mean, channel 913 used be called RedHot, now its called Filth, ugh, so annoying! confuses me something terrible! :rolleyes:

and did it ever occur to anyone else how the playboy channel used be on channel 911, the emergency number in the states, lol, "quick, call playboy!" its now on 900 though, they do that too- move the channels around, damn you sky! :rolleyes:

MACHEAD

Liam Byrne wrote: »

First we had Dave +1 changing to the too-clever-for-its-own-good "Dave ja vu" - making it harder to spot in the EPG - and Gold changing to "Go On Laugh Daily" by putting dots between the letters.

And now the "exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin" Sci-Fi channel is called something ridiculous like "SyFy", while still pronouncing it....."Sci-Fi" but looking like some ridiculous illiterate text-speak.

Why can't they leave well enough alone ?

That's the way things seem to be going now! BTW I insist on calling SciFi by it's new name 'Siffy' here, much to the annoyance of the household. Next thing they'll have poor Ann Doyle doing the 9 o'clock news in gangsta rapping style!

bigpaddy2004

....some guy in an office behind a desk with nothing else to do I suppose.

Minstrel27

xsiborg wrote: »

channel 911, the emergency number in the states, lol, "quick, call playboy!" its now on 900 though, they do that too- move the channels around, damn you sky! :rolleyes:

Wasn't Playboy One on channel 911. Playboy TV closed that down so the 911 EPG slot went to someone else.

xsiborg

MACHEAD wrote: »

Next thing they'll have poor Ann Doyle doing the 9 o'clock news in gangsta rapping style!

they should give Ann her own channel i say! only the next problem would be they'd have to come up with a snazzy name for it!

ANN? - Anne's News Network, then change it to FOXy!! :P

tipperaryboy

I think they change the names every so often just as a marketing gimmick or something like that..has to be.

adox

I think the sci fi channel in the states broadcasts under the banner SyFy so at least they may have some method to their madness.

Dave is my favourite name for a tv channel.

seanan37

DAVE IS A PRETTY LETHAL NAME FOR ANYTHING! I NAMED MY PET SNAKE DAVE