To me, Bob, it's like how American Movie Classics also went into the quality dumpster. Oh, we may still get a true classic every now and then, but AMC's new standard is Airport 77, with commercial interruptions every eight seconds.
I remember Sci-Fi "back in the good old days." I was fortunate enough to live in an area (Anchorage, Alaska) where our cable network added it from the moment it premiered. There were all the TV classics (ah, to have watched Boris Karloff's Thriller again, which so terrified me as a kid), and the cinematic ones as well, plus those delightful shorts they ran, and really well-done documentaries.
But, alas, like the powers-that-be at AMC, it has been decided that that form of quality programming isn't groovy enough for the audience Sci-Fi wanted, meaning anyone under the age of adult maturity. We're just a bunch of old fogies to them.
Gerard