You can't copyright a name. The issue would be with trademarks, and SciFi might have wanted to avoid dilution with the prevalence of DVRs.
Until a few years ago, anything that said "SciFi" on screen was the channel. Now you can search by genre, pull up program information, etc. SyFy might just be easier for them to control. Whether that's the actual reason they changed their name, who knows.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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You can't copyright a name. The issue would be with trademarks, and SciFi might have wanted to avoid dilution with the prevalence of DVRs.
Until a few years ago, anything that said "SciFi" on screen was the channel. Now you can search by genre, pull up program information, etc. SyFy might just be easier for them to control. Whether that's the actual reason they changed their name, who knows.