Talk:Sky Sci-Fi

Ownership

Who owns the Sci-Fi Channel in the UK. it is my understanding from looking at the website that it is owned by NBC Universal via a subsidery called Sci Fi Channels Europe LLC (see the contact email addresses here and here – all at the nbcuni.com domain and the copyright notice at the bottom of the www.scifiuk.com website).

User:Mistress Selina Kyle has edited the infobox to say that is independent and I seem to recall hearing that Vivendi Universal had sold it (way before the merger) but if so - what is with the email addys, can anyone give more authoritive information? – MrWeeble Talk Brit tv 11:59, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

If this helps:

$ whois scifiuk.com

  Organization:
     Universal Studios
     Sally Henley
     5-7 Mandeville Place
     London,  W1M5LB
     GB
     Phone: +44 20 7535 3562
     Email: sally.henley@unistudios.com

$ whois nbcuni.com

Registrant: General Electric Company

  1 Independence Way
  Princeton, NJ 08540
  US

I've also just left some feedback via their website asking them who owns the channel and giving them a link to this article. - Motor (talk) 13:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Don't hold your breath though:

"Dear Motor,

Thanks for your query. We really appreciate your comments, however due to demand we will endeavour to respond within 2 weeks. In the meantime keep watching the channel and using the website.

Many thanks

SCI FI" - Motor (talk) 13:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Surely the line about it being independant isn't true anymore? On the "about" page it clearly says that the parent company is NBC Universal. You can also access the SciFi UK site via http://www.uk.scifi.com/ and even the logo has been changed to match the US version (old logo) --Mercifull 10:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Feedback from the UK SciFi channel

Hi there!

Thank you for your recent message.

SCI FI UK is the sister company of SCI FI US. SCI FI UK is owned by Universal.

Hope that helps.

Kind Regards Duty Officer SCI FI UK

- Motor (talk) 16:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Reply and ask them if that means they are owned by NBC Universal (rather than Vivendi Universal please?

Ask them what "sister company" means in this context; if they are in fact part of the same company/the same company completely or not - I have noticed that a programmes on the US one aren't on in the UK one (a friend was telling me to go watch ghost hunters, but it's not on here..) ..

Thanks for looking into this :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 16:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Companies House information.

Company number: FC019016

BR003277
Name, Address: 	SCI-FI CHANNEL EUROPE L.L.C.
OXFORD HOUSE
76 OXFORD STREET
LONDON
W1D 1BS
Date Open: 	01/11/1995
Closed(Y): 	 
Type of Business: 	OPERATION OF CABLE AND SATELLITE TELIVISION CHANNEL

Parent:

Name & Registered Office:
SCI-FI CHANNEL EUROPE L.L.C.
THE PRENTICE- HALL CORPORATION
SYSTEM INC. 32 LOCKERNAN SQUARE
SUITE L-100 DOVER
DELAWARE 19004 USA
Company No. FC019016

Looks like they ceased to trade?? LoopZilla 12:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Sci Fi Channel (United Kingdom) vs. Sci Fi channel (United Kingdom)

I don't actually have the channel myself, but shouldn't channel be capitalised? DrWho42 08:25, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

No, because the channel's just called Sci Fi...and looking at the logo for the American channel, that seems to be just called Sci Fi too. In fact, I'd say all Sci Fi channel articles need the 'channel' removed, as the word seems to have been dropped from the name worldwide in about 1998ish. BillyH 23:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I work for SCI FI, and that's how we spell it. All capitals, no hyphenation, just the same as all the other SCI FI channels across the world. We sometimes use SCI FI Channel, SCI FI (UK) or similar to distinguish ourselves where there might be confusion.

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