Mediaweek completes our coverage of the Foxtel Media Upfront 2025 with this photo gallery of executives on the red carpet and the presentation stage.
Foxtel Group and Foxtel Media chief executives Patrick Delany and Mark Frain started and finished the show.
The Upfront 2025 saw media buyers, agencies, and executives gather for the broadcaster’s outlook for the year ahead.
The Group’s chief executive, Patrick Delany, welcomed attendees to the evening, telling them: “Every year, we detail the transformation, how we’ve gone from a single product company with a set-top box to an IP-connected digital-led and entertainment company, and everyone (the presenters) that comes out tonight stands before you because we are now a digital sports and entertainment company.”
One of the biggest announcements at the Upfront involved streaming platform BINGE and its expanded content offering to include live and on-demand premium sport, direct from Kayo Sports, on the platform, as well as additional live news channels, at no additional cost to subscribers.
Starting with a bumper finals weekend with the back-to-back AFLW Grand Final and WBBL Grand Final on 30 November and 1 December, sport will appear on BINGE. Following that will be Men’s Big Bash League, Super Netball, and, come winter, NRL and AFL footy on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays (simulcast games) during the regular season with no ad breaks during play.
Foxtel Media’s Toby Dewar, Nev Hasan, Annie Griffiths and Mark Frain
NRL’s Andrew Abdo and Patrick Delany
Foxtel’s Patrick Delany and Rebecca McCloy
NBL’s David Stevenson, Kayo’s Cate Hefele and NBL’s Larry Kestleman
Michael Brooks, General Manager for ANZ at Warner Bros. Discovery
Foxtel’s Patrick Delany and Alison Hurbert-Burns
Foxtel’s Wendy Moore and Dennis Scott
Foxtel’s Julian Ogrin and NRL’s Andrew Abdo
Foxtel’s Hilary Perchard
Sky News Australia anchor Laura Jayes
Patrick Delany
Mark Frain
Fox Sports commentators at the Kayo Bar: Jonathan Brown, Brett Lee, Brendon Julian and Adam Gilchrist