Rebecca Batties appointed GM of Foxtel Music Channels and Head of Digital

Foxtel has appointed Rebecca Batties as General Manager – Foxtel Music Channels and Head of Digital.

Batties will oversee the operation of  Channel [V], [V] Hits, MAX, CMC, and the recently-launched smooth, plus Foxtel’s digital radio service: Foxtel Tunes. She will also manage digital operations for the Foxtel Networks, covering both music and non-music channels.

Batties comes to Foxtel from MTV, where she was General Manager of MTV Networks, Australia and New Zealand. She held this position from 2008 until last year, when MTV Australia moved the majority of its broadcasting operations to London.

She begins her role with Foxtel next Monday, May 5.