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Although TVN Racing is available to Foxtel subscribers it is not a Foxtel channel, due to Foxtel's exclusivity agreement with Sky Racing. To subscribe you need to contact TVN directly, and not Foxtel. TVN has reached an agreement with Telstra to carry the channel available on their cable, and unless you subscribe to the channel it is not visible. This is due to the fact that it's not registered with Foxtel in anyway. |
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Revision as of 12:51, 2 May 2006
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Subscription Television |
Founded | 1995 |
Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales Melbourne, Victoria |
Key people | Kim Williams, CEO Bruce Akhurst, Chairman |
Products | Foxtel Foxtel Digital |
Revenue | Unknown (2005) |
Number of employees | Unknown (2005) |
Website | www.foxtel.tv |
Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. Half of News Corp.'s stake was later sold to businessman Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited. The current ownership is 50% Telstra, and 50% to a joint venture company which is itself 50% owned by News Corp and 50% by PBL.
Service Availability
Foxtel transmits its cable service into the Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth Metropolitan areas. Foxtel transmits its satellite service into some of these cities, as well as the Newcastle and Canberra Metropolitan areas. It also transmits its satellite service to many areas of Regional WA.
Telstra's network and Foxtel were created to combat the threat posed to Telstra's local call business by the combination of Optus Vision (now known as Optus TV) content bundling with Optus' local telephony services. Foxtel was the content arm of Telstra's defence strategy. Telstra's multimedia broadband network was originally the sole delivery system.
The Installation and Maintenance of Foxtel services is Telstra's responsibility. In many markets, Telstra has outsourced Installation and Maintenance to large communications contractors, including ABB Communications and Siemens-Thiess Communications Joint Venture.
Subscriber Numbers
Currently, Foxtel have residential and wholesale connections to 1.16 million locations
Date | No of customers | Market Reach |
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April 1998 | 300,000 | 2.5 Million Homes |
April 1999 | 500,000 | 4.5 Million Homes |
March 2000 | 600,000 | 4.5 Million Homes |
August 2000 | 650,000 | 4.5 Million Homes |
August 2001 | 750,000 | 4.5 Million Homes |
March 2002 | 785,000 | 4.5 Million Homes |
June 2004 | 1.1 Million (incl. Wholesale) >250,000 Digital Customers | 4.5 Million Homes |
June 2005 | 1 Million (excl. Wholesale) | 4.5 Million Homes |
Foxtel Digital
Foxtel launched its digital service (Foxtel Digital) in March 2004. The service is loosely based on another of News Corporation's Subscription Providers, BSkyB. Features of the digital service include:
- Channels with Widescreen and Dolby AC3 5.1 channel surround sound
- Pay-per-view and Near Video On Demand services
- Interactive television services including multiple camera angle sports, news, games and others
- An interactive TV and AIR Radio guide.
- "+2" (timeshift) channels of popular channels, showing programs two hours later than the original channel.
Like many other NewsCorp owned digital platforms Foxtel uses NDS the OpenTV interactive platform and runs on primarily Pace Set-top boxes.
Foxtel iQ
Foxtel has also launched Foxtel iQ, a timeshifting personal digital recorder, in which subscribers are able to record programs onto a hard drive inside the set-top box for later viewing. Foxtel iQ also allows viewers to use the rewind or pause features during television programs.
Pace Micro Technologies are the Set Top Box provider for iQ - of which, they claim that the cable version of iQ is the first DVB based Cable personal digital recorder.
Encryption
Like BSkyB, Foxtel Digital utilises NDS services, including their Videoguard encryption system (for both Cable and Satellite). This is a change from previously using Irdeto and more recently Irdeto 2 on their Satellite service.
Channels on the Foxtel Digital service:
General
- Channel 100 - Channel 9 (Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in digital format. Adelaide and Perth in analogue format)
- Channel 101 - TV1
- Channel 102 - ABC
- Channel 103 - UK.TV
- Channel 104 - SBS
- Channel 105 - Arena TV
- Channel 106 - The LifeStyle Channel
- Channel 107 - Channel 7 (Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth only, in analogue format)
- Channel 108 - FOX8
- Channel 110 - Channel 10 (Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth only, in analogue format)
- Channel 111 - FOX Classics
- Channel 112 - FOX Classics + 2
- Channel 113 - W (formerly known as fx)
- Channel 114 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Preview Channel
- Channel 115 - The LifeStyle Channel + 2
- Channel 116 - LifeStyle Food
- Channel 118 - How To Channel
- Channel 120 - THE COMEDY CHANNEL
- Channel 121 - THE COMEDY CHANNEL + 2
- Channel 122 - E!
- Channel 124 - Hallmark Channel
- Channel 126 - ABC2
- Channel 129 - Ovation Channel
- Channel 130 - Fashion TV
- Channel 135 - TVSN
- Channel 140 - Australian Christian Channel
- Channel 150 - FOX8 + 2
- Channel 151 - TV1 + 2
- Channel 152 - Arena TV + 2
- Channel 153 - UK.TV + 2
- Channel 183 - Aurora Community Television
- Channel 187 - Expo Channel
Movies
- Channel 401 - SHOWTIME
- Channel 402 - SHOWTIME 2
- Channel 404 - SHOWTIME GREATS (formerly known as ENCORE)
- Channel 409 - TCM
- Channel 410 - World Movies
- Channel 411 - MOVIE ONE
- Channel 412 - MOVIE TWO
- Channel 413 - MOVIE EXTRA
- Channel 415 - MOVIE GREATS
Sports
- Channel 501 - FOX Sports One
- Channel 502 - FOX Sports Two
- Channel 506 - FOX Footy Channel
- Channel 509 - EUROSPORTNEWS
- Channel 511 - ESPN
- Channel 513 - FUEL TV (Formerly Fuel)
- Channel 515 - Sky Racing
Although TVN Racing is available to Foxtel subscribers it is not a Foxtel channel, due to Foxtel's exclusivity agreement with Sky Racing. To subscribe you need to contact TVN directly, and not Foxtel. TVN has reached an agreement with Telstra to carry the channel available on their cable, and unless you subscribe to the channel it is not visible. This is due to the fact that it's not registered with Foxtel in anyway.
Interactive Gaming
- Channel 555 - Gamesworld
News, Weather
- Channel 601 - Sky News Australia
- Channel 602 - FOX News
- Channel 603 - CNN International
- Channel 604 - BBC World
- Channel 605 - Bloomberg Television
- Channel 606 - CNBC Australia
- Channel 609 - The Weather Channel
- Channel 610 - SBS World News Channel
Documentaries & Infotainment
- Channel 630 - Discovery Channel
- Channel 632 - National Geographic Channel
- Channel 634 - Animal Planet
- Channel 636 - A1 (Formerly Adventure One)
- Channel 638 - Discovery Travel and Living Channel (Formerly Discovery Travel and Adventure Channel)
- Channel 640 - Discovery Home and Health Channel (Formerly Discovery Health Channel)
- Channel 642 - The Biography Channel
- Channel 644 - The History Channel
- Channel 645 - The History Channel + 2
- Channel 646 - Discovery Science Channel
- Channel 648 - Crime and Investigation Network
Kids
- Channel 701 - Nickelodeon
- Channel 703 - Nick Jr.
- Channel 707 - Disney Channel
- Channel 709 - Playhouse Disney
- Channel 710 - Cartoon Network
- Channel 712 - Boomerang
Music
- Channel 801 - Channel [V]
- Channel 803 - Club [V]
- Channel 805 - musicMAX
- Channel 808 - MTV Australia
- Channel 810 - VH1
- Channel 815 - Country Music Channel
Foxtel air Digital Audio
- Channel 830 - Air active - Hits, Radio 2, Pop, Groove, Rock, Jukebox, New Wave, Home Grown, Urban, Dance, Anthem, Soul, Easy, Lounge, Café, Spa, Blues, Light Classical, Sound Tracks, Crooners, Today’s Country, Classic Country, BBC World Service, Special Events, Edge, ‘70s, ‘80s, Alt-rock, Classic R&B, News and More
- Channel 867 - SBS AM
- Channel 868 - SBS FM
- Channel 875 - ABC NewsRadio (Satellite Only)
- Channel 876 - ABC Parliamentary News Network (Satellite Only)
- Channel 877 - ABC Radio National (Satellite Only)
- Channel 878 - ABC Local Radio (Satellite Only)
- Channel 882 - ABC Classic FM (Satellite Only)
- Channel 883 - ABC Triple J (Satellite Only)
- Channel 884 - ABC DiG Radio
- Channel 885 - ABC DiG Jazz
Foxtel Box Office - PPV Movies
- Channel 901 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 1
- Channel 902 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 2
- Channel 903 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 3
- Channel 904 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 4
- Channel 905 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 5
- Channel 906 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 6
- Channel 907 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 7
- Channel 908 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 8
- Channel 909 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 9
- Channel 910 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 10
- Channel 911 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 11
- Channel 912 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 12
- Channel 913 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 13
- Channel 914 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 14
- Channel 915 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 15
- Channel 916 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 16
- Channel 917 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 17
- Channel 918 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 18
- Channel 919 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 19
- Channel 920 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 20
- Channel 921 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 21
- Channel 922 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 22
- Channel 923 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 23
- Channel 924 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 24
- Channel 925 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 25
- Channel 926 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 26
- Channel 927 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Channel 27
Other
- Channel 928 - Main Event
- Channel 928 - FOXTEL BOX OFFICE Preview Channel
- Channel 941 - Antenna (Greek) (formerly known as Antenna Pacific)
- Channel 942 - RAI International (Radiotelevisione Italiana) (Italian)
- Channel 955 - Adults Only (Late Night to early morning only), Main Event (Special Occasions Only) and when neither are running, there is a second broadcast of Fashion TV
- Channel 960 - Adults Only Select 1
- Channel 961 - Adults Only Select 2
- Channel 998 - Test Channel
- Channel 999 - FOXTEL Digital and Foxtel IQ Help Channel