But it was, not so long ago. Bonnie Hammer used to be the president of SciFi. Of course, she didn't seem to connect with or admit to the existence of female sci-fi fans, so maybe that's not the best example.

Given how many of them I know, I find it very strange that women who like science fiction for the science part continue to fly under the radar. I'm not looking for a romance novel in space. I want cool concepts and technology, dangit. (As well as good characters, solid plots, and witty dialogue. But I expect that from any series I watch, regardless of genre.)

This from a network that can't be bothered to do the basic research required to find out that "Syfy" is street slang for a venerial disease, and textspeak for "Screw you, F**k you"

And what everyone else said. They're trying to bring in more audiences, but getting rid of teh old ones won't really help at all.

I'd call for a boycot for the network, but of course that's not neccisary since they're boycotting their own fans.

Though I'm still interested in "Stargate: Universe"

Wow, its nice to know that no market research about your core audience ever took place in 10 years + that I've been watching. That if you're Howe that you can always fall back on stereotypes (cause those are always true!) to justify your actions. If they want to change the name for copyright/trademark reasons then fine change, it but don't blame women or the "dysfunctional" or "antisocial boys" for it.

I've been watching SciFi for a long time and its not like the craptasitc movies of the week were ever a big draw for me. Most of the time those elicit an eye roll from me.
What was a great draw for me were the great shows like Farscape, Firefly, Stargate, Forever Knight that pulled me in. But what the hell was the justification of bring the ECW on? Really? It still has me scratching my head as to how the hell that fits into their line up.

I'm not a BSG fan (yet, my friends keep telling me), but I am a Stargate fan and when they canceled SGA they lost some of my viewer ship. In defense of them canceling SGA, maybe if you could get some great writers we'd all be watching SciFi/Syfy for the great original programing. The only thing on SciFi/SyFy that I'm even remotely interested in still watching is Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International.

By the way a few words of advice to Howe, most "women" are not fans of wrestling (If you are a woman and a fan then yay for you! Its just not my cup of tea.). You might want to, I don't know, pull in shows like Charmed, Moonlight, Blood Ties, Highlander Raven, or True Blood. Bring back some classics like STNG, Voyager, Xena & Herc. Start pulling from your parent network and run stuff like Heroes, or Psych from sister network USA. Here's a though find strong female lead characters and run with it!

I know that this is SciFi/Syfy but also you might want to increase your Anime programming. There are lots of SciFi fans who love Anime! Not to mention most of Anime's sub-genres are all about the principles of SciFi. Your two hour block once a week during late night on a Monday(?) paired along the merger Anime offerings of Cartoon Network's [adult swim] also in the wee hours of the early a.m. aren't enough! Its such shame that Anime Network went under you could have helped them out greatly.

Sorry for the length of this.

Brilliant as always Lisa!

Also, I'd like to show the network executives some convention photos. A large portion of the audience — often the majority for the Stargate franchise — is female. There are a lot of perfectly "normal" people. There are a lot of families, a far cry from "dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements". David Howe and his team clearly still haven't gotten the message (After ten years? Really?!) that sci-fi entertainment is becoming mainstream. The stigma that they're so desperate to escape is disappearing from our culture. And they're not going to avoid it at all if the new name sounds exactly the same as the old name.

Personally, I would imagine that ECW wrestling and the quality of their movies would be a bigger barrier, but what do I know…