UTV Service & Support

University Television Services (UTV) provides cable television programming to the University of Utah's housing and residential rooms, as well as, several campus classrooms, offices, lounges, and university locations by way of a hybrid video distribution system of coaxial and fiber optic cable.

UTV includes over 80 channels of entertainment, news, international, and educational channels that support the overall collegiate experience of students living on campus as well as the academic and educational needs of the university.

UTV is dedicated to providing television programming services that: supports the overall mission of the university; provides a campus wide system for communication, educational, information, and entertainment programming that is targeted to a diverse community; encourage faculty and student residents to participate in the selection and/or production of programming for the system; provide cable television resources for education and instruction to faculty, staff and students.

Terms of Service

Our Cable TV service is provided as a utility to Heritage Commons Housing. Please enjoy the service and avoid any of the difficulties explained below.

Use Proper Cables

Please note that the Cable TV system re-uses radio frequencies. If you do not use the proper cables and parts to connect your television receivers, you may cause interference with fire/police/ambulance services, airplanes, and more. DO NOT USE bare wire, lamp cord, or anything else other that regular RF shielded coaxial cable to connect your television.

No Cable Between Rooms

You may have as many television receivers (includes VCR's and computers) connected to a Cable TV outlet as you wish. However, no outlet's signal may extend past the boundaries of the room where the outlet is located. This means you may not run cables between rooms, or out of the doors or windows, etc. No filters or traps should be added to your Cable TV outlet or connection. Any such extended wiring or filters will be treated as a case of theft of service.

Right to Disconnect

Telecommunications UTV reserves the right to disconnect any Cable TV user whose wiring causes interference or leakage in the system or who otherwise violates the terms of service.