Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is a television channel is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
The channel features science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, paranormal, drama, and reality programming.
In 1989, Boca Raton, Florida, communications attorney Mitchell Rubenstein and his wife Laurie Silvers devised the concept for the Sci-Fi Channel. They planned to have it begin broadcasting in December 1990, but lacked the resources to launch it. In March 1992, the concept was picked up by USA Networks, then a joint venture between Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios.
In 1994, Paramount was sold to Viacom, followed by Seagram’s purchase of a controlling stake in MCA (of which Universal was a subsidiary) from the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company the next year. In 1997, Viacom sold its stake in USA Networks to Universal, who spun off all its television assets to Barry Diller the next year into the new company Studios USA. Three years later, Diller would sell Studios USA back to Universal, by then a subsidiary of Vivendi SA (at the time known as Vivendi Universal). Vivendi’s film and television production and cable television assets were then merged with General Electric’s NBC to form NBC Universal in 2004. In 2010, Comcast purchased Syfy’s parent company NBCUniversal.
seobrien on March 10, 2020