I am sure that the creators of this channel were either SF fans or at least figured that there was an untapped market for fans of this material. The people who now own this channel only see it as just another outlet for their programming. I truly believe that these people are embarrassed by Science Fiction in general and think that the fans are geekish star trek costume wearning freaks and unless the programming can cross over like a Star Wars movie, the material is worthless. That is not to say that people who work for Sci-fi believe this, but remember that sci-fi is owned by USA which is in turned owned/controlled by Barry Diller and Vivendi.
Let me put this way, one of the reasons put out by Sci-Fi for the cancellation of Farscape was that the show was unable to expand beyond it core viewers. In other words, it blamed the show for only attracking Sci-Fi viewers. So the show was a failure due the fact that it couldnt attract people from let say the Oxygen Channel. The point being that management has come up with the idea that it core audience is no longer good enough and must now appeal to those outside the sci-fi. Why else would they be running Crossing over with Edwards day and night. As I previously wrote, it is their right to do so, but they might as well change their name to something else.
Their new model is to now show special miniseries like Takan and Dune in order to get big ratings based on big names. However, that leaves 50 weeks with crappy programming