Local Recaps: NYU Got Rid of Traditional Cable

On the bright side, no more rushing home to watch my shows on time.

On August 3rd, NYU Residential Life & Housing Services sent out an email to all incoming students with housing plans announcing that they were getting rid of wired Campus Cable due to the fact that “watching TV on your own device on your own schedule has become more prevalent than watching traditional TV at a set time in a fixed location.”

Students in dorms (except Clark Street, Stuyvesant Town, and Washington Square Village) and on NYU Wi-Fi will still have access to Philo Edu, a site that live streams TV with the ability to pause, It also includes a DVR which allows up to 20 hours of recordings, as well as HBO Go and MaxGo. Students can still watch on their TV sets using NYU Wi-Fi and a Roku to access the Philo Edu app.

However, according to NYU’s website, students living in NYU Medicine and Law housing will still receive “wired, closed-circuit cable service included in their housing costs.” Maybe grad students like to watch on a fixed schedule? I guess to NYU the Millennial/Gen Z split is just as wide between current graduate and undergraduate students.