Our Story

The Foxtel Group's four retail brands, which together reach almost one in two Australian households, include:

• Foxtel, our premium all in one place entertainment service
  
• Kayo Sports, our fast-growing sports streaming service with over 1 million subscribers
  
• BINGE, our world-class entertainment streaming service.
  
• Flash, our news streaming service featuring more than 20 local and international news sources.

The Foxtel Group's diversified business includes Fox Sports, Australia's leading sports production company, famous for live sports and shows with the best commentators and personalities.

The Foxtel Group broadcasts and streams Australia's most popular sports, including the Australian Football League, the National Rugby League, Cricket Australia, motorsports including Australia's Supercars and the international Moto GP and Formula One.

From 2022, Fox Sports will also be home to Super Netball, and through ESPN, to the Australian National Basketball League. In addition, we partner with a wide range of women's and under-represented sports.

The Group also includes Foxtel Media, our innovative advertising sales business.

Our Strategy and Performance

The Foxtel Group's strategy is to build a streaming-led growth company through a portfolio of distinctive entertainment brands that allow us to reach every Australian.

From our beginnings in 1996 as Australia’s original Pay-TV innovator, we have transformed our business over the past four years to become a technology-led streaming company. The three pillars of our strategy are:

1. We are growing rapidly in streaming.
   As at December 31, 2021, the Kayo, BINGE and Foxtel Now streaming services had 2.29 million total subscribers, up 66% in the past year. We will continue to create opportunities for growth through new streaming brands and our position at the heart of the home.
   
   
2. We are strengthening Foxtel.
   Foxtel has been repositioned as a premium service base and has moved strongly into streaming with all in one place access to the world’s best streaming apps. This is supported by product innovation with the new iQ5, our first plug and play streaming set top box and voice control remote.
   
   
3. We are transforming our foundations based on world-class technology and content.
   Our Group-wide functions cover technology and operations, entertainment and sports content, advertising sales and marketing. Our transformation is seeing the Foxtel Group emerge as a more efficient, lower-cost company increasingly enabled by the new, state of the art IP systems. We are the local partner of choice for direct content providers and for the world’s best apps based on established, long-term relationships and our position as the largest Australian-based subscription television company.

The results are showing through.

Subscriber highlights for the quarter ended December 31, 2021,* include:

Total Foxtel Group subscribers reached 4.08 million (3.94 million paid), a record high, up 21% on the prior year.

• Total streaming subscribers, including Kayo Sports, BINGE and Foxtel Now reached 2.29 million (2.16 million paid), up 66%.
• Streaming subscribers represent 56% of the Foxtel Group’s total subscribers.
  • Kayo reached 1.03 million subscribers (1.01 million paid), up 59%.
  • BINGE, launched in May 2020, reached 1.04 million subscribers (928,000 paid), up 122%.
  • Foxtel Now reached 219,000 subscribers (211,000 paid), down 17%.
• Foxtel residential and commercial broadcast subscribers were 1.78 million.
  • Foxtel Residential subscribers declined to 1.56 million.
  • ARPU was up 3% to $82 through a focus on Foxtel’s premium brand positioning.
  • Residential churn continued to improve, declining to 13%, the lowest since the first quarter of Fiscal 2020.

*Source: News Corp Fiscal 2022 Second Quarter Earnings, February 3, 2022.
Full details can be found at https://investors.newscorp.com