A hoax rather than a WTF?
Aug. 24th, 2006 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchSCI FI Channel to Change Name to SurgeTV
ETA: Some people on Whedonesque are saying this may be a hoax... And I just barely hit the link again for the original press release, which is no longer pointing to an article, just to the hosting website. Hmmm.
EATA: More info on the hoax (thanks for the link![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telaryn!)
Some of the pertinent bits, as posted on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
whedonesque:
"Effective November 1, 2006, the SCI FI Channel will change their name to SurgeTV, to reflect the changing demographic thrust of the successful long-running cable channel. In addition, deals are currently working out to bring back ECW for a three-times a week run in prime time, as well as reruns (Pre-WWE) of professional wrestling events"
Wrestling?!?!? WRESTLING?!?!!? As if there isn't enough of that over on seven or eight other channels. Sheesh.
Oh, but it gets better...
"While much of the original programming the SCI FI Channel has produced will remain on air through the next year, SurgeTV expects sweeping changes to the network, shifting away from the so-called "nerd" demographic."
Yeah, well, screw you, too. And the marketing advisors you rode in on.
ETA: Some people on Whedonesque are saying this may be a hoax... And I just barely hit the link again for the original press release, which is no longer pointing to an article, just to the hosting website. Hmmm.
EATA: More info on the hoax (thanks for the link
telaryn!) Some of the pertinent bits, as posted on
whedonesque:"Effective November 1, 2006, the SCI FI Channel will change their name to SurgeTV, to reflect the changing demographic thrust of the successful long-running cable channel. In addition, deals are currently working out to bring back ECW for a three-times a week run in prime time, as well as reruns (Pre-WWE) of professional wrestling events"
Wrestling?!?!? WRESTLING?!?!!? As if there isn't enough of that over on seven or eight other channels. Sheesh.
Oh, but it gets better...
"While much of the original programming the SCI FI Channel has produced will remain on air through the next year, SurgeTV expects sweeping changes to the network, shifting away from the so-called "nerd" demographic."
Yeah, well, screw you, too. And the marketing advisors you rode in on.
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Hold on...
Date: 2006-08-24 03:33 pm (UTC)The folk on whedonesque are searching for independent confirmation, and so far can't find it.
Re: Hold on...
Date: 2006-08-24 03:36 pm (UTC)A good hoax, if it was one, since so many of us bought it hook, line and sinker (because like all good lies, it has a ring of truth to it).