Job cuts at Kayo under new ownership
Foxtel Group has made a number of redundancies at Kayo Sports, following the company’s recent $3.4 billion takeover by global sporting streaming Dazn.
A spokesperson from Foxtel confirmed the redundancies to Mumbrella, saying they “align with our recent executive re-shuffle that saw Hilary Perchard take on the responsibility of Kayo Sports and Binge, as well as Foxtel.”
Mumbrella understands the recent round of job losses is in the single digits.
Bring down the price for Foxtel and Kayo
Does that mean that Kayo is no longer owned by Murdoch? (I might subscribe if it isn’t…)
“Best streaming service in the world”? It’s absolute shite. Constant buffering and no tech support, just putting the blame back on customers. Absolute fraud of a service and the sooner somebody else gets the online rights for AFL the better.
“Kayo has always been regarded around the world as one of the best streaming services, from a customer-experience point of view”. Wow. Reference required!
I recently signed up to Kayo (once it left News Ltd ownership), and the viewer experience is appalling. I really only watch Formula 1 replays. There are no chapters or placeholders for key parts of the broadcast, long boring promos, advertisements (!), the fast forward and rewind feature is rubbish with no screen preview or any indication of speed, and no viewer selectable features like the the UK Sky broadcast has.
And all this for $25 a month. Soon to be $30 a month! It’s a lot of money to watch two or three race replays a month and it’s a rubbish experience. And unlike other regions, Kayo’s monopoly deal with F1 ensures no other viewing options are available for Australian viewers.
My next step is to cancel Kayo before the price rise hits and employ a tech savvy teenager and a VPN to purchase a reasonably priced, reasonably featured broadcast package from overseas (probably NZ). Failing that I’ll go back to not watching Formula 1 until Australian viewers get a fair deal.