Tomorrow it's official. The SCI FI channel is dead. Long live Syfy. It's not the only cable network to rename itself, but it definitely is one of the more controversial name changes.

Discovery makes a living out of renaming its channels without creating much debate. Discovery Wings was promoted to the Military Channel. Discovery Science evolved into the Science Channel. Discovery Home received a makeover as Planet Green. In 2010, Discovery Health will become OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. No real controversies here.

When two networks combine forces, there's not much choice but to rebrand. UPN and The WB became The CW. M2 and The Box made music as MTV2. HA! and the Comedy Channel stood up as Comedy Central. TechTV and G4 rebooted as G4techTV. Again, no viewer outrage when these networks were renamed.

And then there are a bunch of networks that slowly changed names and programming over time. Each name change wasn't a big deal, but the channel is completely different than when it started. Can you imagine the number of tweets when The Nashville Network changed to Spike? How 'bout when the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) switched to ABC Family? Yet, that's exactly what happened.

Let's take a look at these two cable networks and see how they changed through the ages.

SPIKE

NAME	Spike	Spike TV	The National Network	TNN	The Nashville Network
DATE RENAMED	May 2006	August 2003	September 2000	1998	March 1983
LOGO
TYPES OF PROGRAMS	Bad Boys	For Boys	WWF Boys	Good Ol' Boys	Country Boys
PEOPLE ON TV

ABC Family

NAME	ABC Family	Fox Family	The Family Channel	The CBN Family Channel	CBN Cable Network	CBN Satellite Service
DATE RENAMED	November 2001	August 1998	1990	August 1988	September 1981	April 1977
LOGO
TYPES OF PROGRAMS	Some Young People Playing Around	Some Young People Playing Games & Singing	Some Old People Playing Games & Singing	Some Old People's Shows	Some Old Shows	Some Old Christian Man
PEOPLE ON TV

Other Cable Networks with Multiple Name Changes

• Hallmark (Aug 2001): Started as VISN/ACTS (1991) after American Christian Television System (ACTS) & Vision Interfaith Satellite Network (VISN) merged. Later renamed as: Faith and Values (1993); Odyssey (1996).
• HLN (Dec 2008): Started as CNN2 (Jan 1982) and then renamed as: CNN Headline News (1983); Headline News.
• Investigation Discovery, ID (Jan 2008): Started as CBS Eye on People (1996) and then renamed as: Discovery People (1998); Discovery Civilization (1999); Discovery Times (2002).
• AmericanLife TV Network (Mar 2005): Started as the Nostalgia Channel (1986). Later renamed as: Nostalgia Television; Nostalgia-Good TV (1998); GoodLife TV Network (1998).
• TV Guide Network (Jun 2007): Started as Prevue Guide (1988). Later renamed: Prevue Channel(1993); TV Guide Channel (2007).
• We tv (2006): Started as Romance Classics (1997), then renamed as WE: Women's Entertainment (2001).
• Versus (Sep 2006): Started as Outdoor Life Network (Jul 1995) and then renamed OLN.
• ION (Jan 2007): Started as PAX (Aug 1998) and then renamed as i (Jul 2005).
• BET J (Mar 2006): Started as BET Jazz, then renamed as BET on Jazz.

* We didn't include cable networks that only changed their names once because it's a pretty long list. If we forgot a cable net that changed its names multiple times, let us know in the comments and we'll add it to the list.