Lifestyle boss Hannah Barnes to leave Foxtel
The group general manager of Foxtel’s Lifestyle channels, Hannah Barnes, will be leaving the company in October.
Barnes joined the Foxtel Lifestyle group as head of programming in 2009 and took responsibility for the channels in 2015.
“Hannah has made an indelible mark on the success of the genre over the course of her stewardship and the Lifestyle group is the envy of our competitors,” said Foxtel’s head of Television, Brian Walsh.
Maybe moving around the corner to Pyrmont? Ten could use her
Is it any suprise we keep getting farewell emails like these? Deanne Weir / Mark Buckman PT (Peter Tongah) etc etc. Hannah had to deal with the shrinking budgets but rising costs, getting shrinking advertising revenue by getting products in return for advertising squeezes and of course dropping chanels from the lineup. Its not easy to pop in to work knowing you have to start letting good staff go because those above have no idea that Foxtel is no longer the monopoly we once were, no one takes notice of our Customer feedback Net promoter scores or care what our customers say in Retention calls. Project Martian 1 (Martian 2) not looking like Customer Hero’s anymore
It amazes me how the comms coming out of Foxtel don’t reconcile with customer feedback and customer churn. Andy Lark’s PR rubbish about the brand and commercial focus doesn’t look promising if the business lacks customers to deliver revenue and growth.
Foxtel has become an expensive tv indulgence filled with bloated advertising content.
You are now paying for packages which subsidize crap channels outside of sport while being bombarded with ads.