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What is with the ridiculous channel names ?

  • 19-04-2010 11:24PM
    #1
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭


    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 ? :(


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  • #2
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,195 ✭✭✭John mac


    yesterday once more. :D:D:D



  • #3
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭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!" :D its now on 900 though, they do that too- move the channels around, damn you sky! :rolleyes:


  • #4
    MACHEAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭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!


  • #5
    bigpaddy2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭bigpaddy2004


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


  • #6
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    xsiborg wrote: »
    channel 911, the emergency number in the states, lol, "quick, call playboy!" :D 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.


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  • #7
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭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


  • #8
    tipperaryboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭tipperaryboy


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


  • #9
    adox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,083 ✭✭✭✭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. :)


  • #10
    seanan37
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭seanan37


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


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