UCI Housing Network and Cable TV Issues

According to this link, Resnet has added ESPN, Speed TV (Part of ESPN/ABC), Fuel TV (part of Fox) and some other channels to their lineup. It may be that CampusTelevideo drastically reduced the prices they charge for these channels. When I was a member… more »

News outlets all over the place (e.g., here) report that the FCC has banned Cable TV lock-ins such as the one at UCI, where Resnet has contracted with one of the worst providers, Campus Televideo, which prevents residents from getting decent, popular ch… more »

It seems that the switch to DirecTV was a good one. I didn't notice a single outage over the Thanksgiving weekend. That is the longest time without outage since UCI started managing this. Of course, before, with my subscription to Cox, it wouldn't even… more »

Ok, UCI Cable TV is now using DirecTV... Let's just hope that the channel freezes are a thing of the past. The channel lineup is here. Some impressions so far: Still no ESPN, but at least Spike TV and FX, and HBO hopefully coming soon. The… more »

I just received this email: Greetings, We received information from the Housing technology office this morning regarding changes in the residential television services: The cutover to DirecTV will happen on Tuesday November 23. There will be… more »