August 2024
Video of Foxtel boss Patrick Delany’s Nazi salute emerges
The footage shows the chief executive imitating a pose infamously struck by former soccer goalkeeper Mark Bosnich in 1996.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
April 2024
Foxtel faces its streaming apocalypse
Once the country’s most profitable media group, Foxtel is losing subscribers and is facing a mega-sports rights bill. Will it make it through?
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Exclusive
- Media & marketing
Inside Tabcorp’s CEO search
Recruiters for the wagering group have a long list of potential candidates - including Patrick Delany, the chief executive of Foxtel.
- Updated
- Sam Buckingham-Jones and Zoe Samios
January 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Seven scores big in cricket deal
After spending six months bowling bumpers at the heads of Cricket Australia, Seven’s James Warburton is celebrating a seven-year sports rights deal to 2031.
- Tony Boyd
November 2022
We’re not America: Foxtel boss says streamers are getting it wrong
The pay-TV operator’s chief, Patrick Delany, says international streaming services wrongly assume that Australian viewers want only ‘Americanesque’ titles.
- Edmund Tadros
August 2022
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Streaming puts Foxtel on a roll
With $3 billion a year in revenue as well as a growth story to tell, Foxtel boss Patrick Delany has the ingredients for an IPO when normal activity in equity capital markets resumes.
- Tony Boyd
June 2022
- Exclusive
- Streaming
Nine, Foxtel explored combined streaming service before Binge launch
Nine and News Corp’s Foxtel discussed how they could work together in the subscription streaming service to better compete against international giants like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon.
- Miranda Ward and Max Mason
May 2022
Foxtel boss unconcerned about streaming competition for AFL rights
Patrick Delany says the likes of Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+ need to demonstrate to the AFL how they can beat Fox Sports and Kayo in coverage and reach.
- Miranda Ward
December 2021
Big tech crackdown and an election: how 2022 will play out for media
The Australian Financial Review’s Media & Marketing section rounds out the year with a look at what to expect next year.
- Miranda Ward
October 2021
Foxtel launches news subscription offering Flash
Its latest streaming service will give subscribers access to a range of global and local news sources including Sky News, Al Jazeera and Fox News.
- Miranda Ward
Foxtel enters smart TV market in global deal
The broadcaster is the first global syndication partner for Sky Glass, a smart television that will feature 4K TV and aggregate streaming content in one place.
- Miranda Ward
Foxtel out to prove success as it looks to IPO
Foxtel is gearing up for phase two of the ongoing streaming wars, attempting to position itself for a winning position as both content supplier and content aggregator.
- Miranda Ward
September 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Foxtel turnaround a worthy MBA case study
Strangely enough, the market applies very little value to the Foxtel pay-TV and streaming business sitting on the News Corp balance sheet, but it could be worth $4 billion in an IPO.
- Updated
- Tony Boyd
Foxtel puts on streaming face amid IPO chatter
The Foxtel Group is switching the narrative from a cable TV brand to a digital, streaming-led business as it continues to pursue a potential float on the ASX.
- Updated
- Miranda Ward
November 2020
- Opinion
- Business of sport
Could rugby be Stan Sport's audition for AFL rights?
Nine and Stan Sport are a credible threat to Foxtel through their legitimate interest in pay sport, albeit one in its nascent stages where the new business model needs to be proven.
- Max Mason
Foxtel, Cricket Australia reach broadcast compromise
While Foxtel has reached an agreement on a rights discount with Cricket Australia, Seven chairman Kerry Stokes alleges the sport's governing body has failed to offer recompense for the pandemic-hit summer.
- Max Mason
September 2020
Supercars confirms five-year, $200m TV deal
Seven will broadcast six Supercars events, including the Bathurst 1000, while Foxtel will continue to broadcast all races.
- Max Mason
Kayo rebounds from shutdown exodus to pass 600,000 subscribers
Foxtel's boss says sports subscribers across the group – Kayo, broadcast Foxtel and Foxtel Now – have hit their highest level in the 25 years of Foxtel's existence at just under 2 million.
- Max Mason
Summer of discontent awaits cricket
Cricket Australia finds itself in crisis as a broadcaster's push for a discount threatens the billion-dollar deal it struck two years ago.
- Max Mason
- Exclusive
- Broadcast rights
Foxtel and Seven poised to sign Supercars deal
Indicating the deal is close, Supercars chief executive Sean Seamer is speaking at a Foxtel event on Tuesday: Sport 2020, Breaking All Records showcase event.
- Max Mason