I come to this idea late, but...

Over in the Uk our Sci-fi Channel lost its Sci-fi years ago, starting with the laste night anime (ok not much scifi in the first place TBH, but was my first introduction to classics like Eva and Nadesico) which degenerated into the same half dozen badly edited H-movies before being cut all together.

Then it was the prime time slots, with less and less Sci-fi and more and more badly done horror.

After that went the evening movies, first the quality dropping past B-movies into Q and R (and possibly even worse mostly staring the same half dozen actors), before changing into yet more horror

Then the final indignity the loss of sci-fi from the daytime and late night/early morning slots to be preplaced by the TV equivelant of the National Enquirer and even worse teleshopping (shudder).

So the Baen Channel a great and worthy idea but please please please bring it to us long suffering Scifi fans in the UK as well