Comcast today announced that it has launched its Xfinity On Campus service at Wesley College in Dover, DE, allowing students to watch live TV, Xfinity On Demand and recorded content on their IP-enabled devices, including laptops, tablets and smartphones. The service is included with room and board for students living in on-campus housing.
Xfinity On Campus offers more than 100 live channels including every major broadcast network, as well as channels like AMC, Bravo, ESPN, FX and MTV through Comcast’s Xfinity Stream app and portal. The service also includes access to thousands of current season TV shows and hit movies via Xfinity On Demand. While off campus, students can use the Xfinity Stream app to login and access TV Everywhere programming that’s part of their subscription.
“Wesley College joins a distinguished list of area colleges and universities offering this unique service to its on-campus students,” said Jeff Seidenfaden, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Comcast’s Beltway Region. “Students can now turn their mobile devices into a television, enabling them to easily view their favorite live content on the go, anytime. We hope Wesley students enjoy it on campus and beyond.”
Wesley College joins 15 schools in the Beltway Region — from Goucher College and Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, MD to Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA — whose students use Xfinity On Campus.
“We are thrilled to partner with Comcast to offer our students significantly enhanced access to live content across their devices,” said Wesley College President Robert E. Clark II. “Xfinity On Campus is the connectivity access of the future that we at Wesley College are proud to provide our campus today thanks to Comcast.”
Xfinity On Campus provides an opportunity to introduce a younger audience to Xfinity X1 — Comcast’s next-generation video product currently enjoyed by residential customers throughout the nation. Xfinity X1 delivers an immersive and personalized entertainment experience across all devices in an interface that is sleek, intuitive and makes search and discovery of content easier than ever.
Xfinity On Campus is easy and cost-effective for a university’s IT department to maintain. To register for the service, students can visit https://xfinityoncampus.com, type in their school name and authenticate with their student user name and password. Once registered, students can watch their programming anytime by downloading the Xfinity Stream app or by visiting https://tv.xfinity.com and logging in with their student credentials.
Current List of Schools with Xfinity On Campus in the Beltway Region:
- Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
- Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD
- Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD
- Towson University, Towson, MD
- Stevenson University, Pikesville, MD
- McDaniel College, Westminster, MD
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
- Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
- University of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA
- Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA
- Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, VA
- Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA
- Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
- Delaware State University, Dover, DE
