Cable television service on campus includes residence halls, university housing, academic buildings, departments, and the Iowa House hotel. Students must supply their own coax cable for use with cable television service in residence halls and university housing.
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Maintenance
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Alert History
There will be a CATV outage for the entire campus during this time frame.
Cable TV will be down across campus during the maintenance window.
Mediacom will perform maintenance on the Campus Cable TV (CATV) system. The service will be unavailable on the UI campus during the maintenance window.
Windstream has a planned maintenance which will affect video service for all of Iowa City and Coralville.
Mediacom will be performing fiber maintenance which will affect video service (Cable TV) for all of Iowa City and Coralville including the University of Iowa campus.
The issue has been resolved.
A few HD channels on the University cable system are not working. ITS is working with Mediacom on a fix.
Maintenance is required to repair a damaged fiber line. Video service will be disrupted for Iowa City and Coralville.
The service has been restored.
Cable TV on campus is down. Mediacom, the provider of our service, is working to resolve the issue.
Cable TV services in the Iowa City and Coralville area will be unavailable.
Cable TV services in the Iowa City and Coralville area will be unavailable due to fiber maintenance.
Cable TV services in the Iowa City and Coralville area will be unavailable.
Cable Television services will be unavailable throughout the building for maintenance.
Cable TV services in the Iowa City and Coralville area will be unavailable.
Cable TV services in the Iowa City and Coralville area will be unavailable.
This issue is resolved.
Several channels within the University cable TV system aren't working. Support staff are working with the vendor on the problem.
Cable TV services in the Iowa City and Coralville area will be unavailable due to fiber maintenance.
This issue has been resolved.
The listed buildings are experiencing intermittent issues with cable TV. ITS is aware of these issues and are working on a resolution.
Mediacom will perform fiber maintenance. Cable TV service will be unavailable for the Iowa City and Coralville area.
Mediacom will perform fiber maintenance. Cable TV service will be unavailable for the Iowa City and Coralville area.
Update: the issue with Campus Cable TV has been resolved.
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Campus Cable TV is currently down. Our technicians are working to resolve the issue.
Mediacom has scheduled planned maintenance for the Cable TV service.
Mediacom will be performing fiber maintenance. All video service in the Iowa City/Coralville area will be unavailable during this time.
Mediacom will perform fiber maintenance. All video service will be unavailable in the Iowa City/Coralville area.
Mediacom has resolved this issue.
There has been a fiber cut that is causing service problems with Mediacom. Mediacom staff are working to fix the problem.
Mediacom will be working on their fiber maintenance. All video service in the Iowa City/Coralville area will be down during this time.
A network maintenance window is required to upgrade software on networking equipment in the building. Wired and wireless services from these buildings to the campus network, as well as the Internet will be disrupted during this time.
This work will also affect Cable TV in Mayflower residence hall.
Mediacom will be performing fiber maintenance on Dubuque Street that will affect cable television service to the University of Iowa.
Cable TV service in Iowa City and Coralville will be down during this time due to emergency fiber maintenance.
Cable TV service in Coralville and Iowa City will be down during this time due to a fiber relocate.
Video service on campus will be unavailable due to a forced fiber relocate.
Mediacom has resolved the issues.
Mediacom is experiencing an issue with High Definition television channels. They are working to resolve it and this posting will be updated when additional information is available.
Mediacom is performing fiber maintenance. This will affect video service for all of Iowa City, Coralville, and surrounding areas.
Windstream will perform maintenance on the Cable Television system. Cable Television will not work during the maintenance period.
Windstream will perform maintenance on the Cable Television system. Cable Television will not work during the maintenance period.
Mediacom will perform fiber work between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids that will affect all cable TV and video services in Iowa City, Coralville and the surrounding area.
Mediacom will be performing maintenance on their fiber network that will affect all Cable TV services for Iowa City, Coralville and surrounding area.
Networking for the Speech and Hearing Center (SHC) will be down for maintenance during this time. This work is required to reroute fiber feeding video, internet and wireless services to the building. Video, wired and wireless services from SHC to the campus network, as well as the Internet will be down during this maintenance window.
There is a Mediacom Cable TV outage in Iowa City and the surrounding areas due to a fiber cut in Cedar Rapids. Mediacom is working to resolve the issue but it could take several hours. We will update this notice as soon as more information is available.
ITS will be working on the Campus Cable TV system. You can expect brief interruptions during this time.
Cable TV service has been restored. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further issues.
Cable TV is out campus-wide due to a Mediacom fiber cut. Mediacom is working to resolve the issue. We will update this notice as soon as more information is available.
Mediacom has scheduled an outage of all video services in Iowa City and Coralville.
Internet services should not be affected.
Mediacom is moving to a different video platform. You may see a sporadic loss of channels or the entire video line up in all of Iowa City and Coralville.
Service should be restored to normal by 6:00 AM.
Mediacom is moving to a different video platform. You may see a sporadic loss of channels or the entire video line up in all of Iowa City and Coralville.
Service should be restored to normal by 6:00 AM.
Mediacom will be performing maintenance on their fiber network and the campus cable TV service will be interrupted during this time.
ITS has received reports from several campus locations about problems accessing cable television services.
ITS support staff are investigating the issue.
ITS will be performing maintenance to the Campus Cable TV system (CATV) on Tuesday 5 July 2016 from 8:00AM-10:00AM.
This may cause brief interruptions during this time period.
Addendum - This outage will also affect high speed internet at Hawkeye Apartments.
Mediacom reports that a fiber cable has been cut and is causing a Cable TV outage in the Iowa City area. This will affect Cable TV on campus.
Mediacom is working to restore service as quickly as possible. We will update this page once we have further information.
ITS has been notified that Windstream Communications will be relocating fiber cable between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids on May 20, 2016 from 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM.
This will affect internet service for all Mediacom customers in Iowa City and Coralville as well as towns south of Iowa City. Internet connectivity is not expected to be interrupted but may be slow.
Cable TV Contact Information
Contact by phone or email at 319-335-2945 or its-itconnect@uiowa.edu.
Fill out this form to submit a cable TV repair request.