Free TV chair Greg Hywood steps down
Greg Hywood has quit as independent chair of Free TV Australia after four-and-a-half years in the role.
The former Fairfax CEO was appointed chair in October 2020. During his time, Free TV secured a new prominence framework that requires free-to-air apps be pre-installed on the homepage of all connected TVs, updated and strengthened the anti-siphoning laws protecting live sports broadcasting, and won a 12-month reprieve from the commercial broadcasting tax – saving the commercial networks $50 million in fees.
Hywood told Mumbrella he had taken up the chair at a time when the TV industry was facing similar changes he had already been through in the publishing world.
