Foxtel subscribers grow again, but more slowly

Tim Burrowes

August 13, 2009 10:33

Foxtel’s subscriber base has continued to grow, the pay TV company said today, although the speed at which it is doing so has declined.

Foxtel now has 1.63m subscribers.

At the same time last year it had 1.54m, which had risen to 1.59m when Foxtel last updated the market six months ago.

But the growth rate has been slowing. In August 2007, the company said subscriber base had risen by 12.4% on the previous year. This rate was down to 6.9% growth by August 2008. And for the last 12 months it was a 5.8% growth.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.