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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   Barry Margolin sent the following on 11/16/2010 10:34 PM:   
   > In article,   
   >   Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Again, I'm talking about SF *fans*, so once you start talking about   
   >> people who don't like westerns not watching westerns, you're going   
   >> off-track.   
   >   
   > But you can't make a profit operating a network that just caters to this   
   > niche demographic.   
   >   
   > If SyFy were doing this for artistic value, then we'd certainly get high   
   > quality fare (and they wouldn't have changed their name).  But it's a   
   > *business*, and that means attracting a broader audience.   
      
   Syfy made the changes that it made because it wanted a larger audience.   
     That's not the same thing as saying that Syfy could not have continued   
   on just fine without making the changes.  Like most businesses, they   
   wanted to grow; they wanted a bigger piece of the pie, even though there   
   was nothing wrong with the piece that they had to begin with.  My   
   argument is that, where the SF potential audience is concerned, there is   
   already a sufficiently large piece of pie out there, but the bakers suck   
   more often than not, so people eat cake instead.   
      
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   Jim Gysin   
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