Sydney – Foxtel has made a number of new appointments in its Owned & Operated Channels Group. Penny Win, who has served for many years in free-to-air and subscription television in Australia and New Zealand, has been hired as Group Channel Manager of W. Channel and Fox Classics. Brendon Moo has been promoted to Head of Factual Channels and Senior Executive of Publicity, with overall responsibility for The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network; he will also manage communications for the launch of Foxtel’s High Definition and Next Generation products. Stephen Baldwin has been upped to General Manager of Television Operations, in addition to his role as Group Program Manager for FOX 8, Arena and BIO. He’ll be responsible for Foxtel’s management of ratings & research, strategy and policy, censorship and captioning, interactivity and industry relations. Steve Langdon has been promoted to Baldwin’s previous portfolio of Program Operations Manager. Foxtel also announced Alex Ristevski as new Channel Manager for The Comedy Channel, replacing Sean Riley, who is freelancing, currently directing The Comedy Channel’s Stand Up Australia and also an upcoming fight on Main Event. Ristevski, who previously worked at Foxtel in Advertising Sales and On Air, rejoins the company from GTV9 Melbourne, where he was an Executive Producer on light entertainment shows such as Wine Me, Dine Me and Postcards.