Paul Edwards takes chief comms officer post at Foxtel
Foxtel has announced Paul Edwards as its chief communications officer. The newly created role will report to CEO Patrick Delany and also join the broarder News Corp Australia comms team lead by Campbell Reid.
Edwards joins from Commonwealth Bank where he had been senior advisor in group corporate affairs since 2018.
Prior to his role at Commonwealth Bank, Edwards was a senior executive at ANZ, heading up corporate communications.
Delany said Edwards’ appointment strengthened Foxtel’s communications team at a crucial time as the company pursued its ambitious business transformation.
“Paul’s extensive business and communications experience add an important skill set to our management team at a time when engagement with external stakeholders and our own people about our strategy has never been more important.
“We are already seeing positive momentum in strengthening Foxtel for the future and we look forward to Paul’s contribution as part of our strengthened communications team,” Delany said.
The announcement comes during a tough time for Foxtel, with News Corp making it known in its quarterly reporting that the business is struggling financially and flagging potential job cuts as a means of recovering the situation.
There has also recently been a raft of personnel changes, with both Andrew Mulready and Brigitte Slattery departing in the last three months. Shortly before that, the business combined its sales teams with MCN.
I have been a customer for over 20 years continual so I think I have right to bring up my first gripe.
Foxtel’s phone system is nothing short of a disgrace.
This shortcoming does nothing for the creditabiliy of Foxtel as a major player in the entertainment industry.
Laurie Field .
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Foxtel is growing a huge group of disenchanted subscribers who discover once they “upgrade” to the iq4 box and therefore a satellite connection that they are no longer able to record more than one HD FTA channel at a time. And to do this they need a suitable antenna installed something they didn’t need prior.
All sorts of gobbledegook has been advanced by Foxtel as to why this is but most seems to centre on the FTA channels not paying for the bandwidth they need to support hd broadcasts through the satellite.
As we advance to a time when all cable subscribers are going to be forced onto satellite a failure to address this issue is going to accelerate people turning off of Foxtel which it seems has already commenced.
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Hi,
I had Foxtel with free to air tv which was terrific. I had moved house and brought my Foxtel box with me. I had thought all I had to do was get the technician to connect everything and it would be the same. No , that is too simple, even though I could see the free to air channels as the technician was tuning the box in, he said I can’t have these “free to air “ channels as there has been a dispute with free to air and Foxtel.
Come on Foxtel get your act together, I have down graded my package to one, and hardly put Foxtel on at all now.
I really only watch Foxtel Go now. I believe you are missing out of a lot of business from me, if I had free to air channels on I might be enticed to have a bigger package.
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Seriously with all the streaming companies like Stan, Netflix, Amazon, and others coming soon you would have thought foxtel would bring out a box that actually works, I have the iq4k box and every day you have to unplug the box and reboot. You constantly have recording issues with sound dropping in and out. You also have constant recording failures and freezes if you stream. You also lose recordings and series links just vanish. Geez Foxtel what a upgrade!
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