SKY UK LIMITED

1. SKY UK LIMITED 2015-02-05 → present
2. BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING LIMITED 1994-07-01 → 2015-02-05
3. PRECIS (1265) LIMITED 1994-03-10 → 1994-07-01

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 101

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Deloitte LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Given the integrated nature of the Group's financial planning and treasury functions, funding requirements have been assessed at the Group level. The Directors believe that the cash flow from operating activities generated by the businesses, together with the Company's existing cash, cash equivalents, investments and available borrowings under its existing credit facilities, including the £6 billion and the £700 million revolving credit facilities with Comcast, will be sufficient for the Company to meet its current and long-term liquidity and capital requirements. The Company is in a net current liability position, in line with the operational model of the Company (which holds investments in subsidiaries as non-current assets). However, the Company has received confirmation that Comcast intends to support the Company for a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing of these financial statements. As a result, after making enquiries, the Directors have formed a judgement at the time of approving the financial statements that the Company will have access to adequate resources to continue for at least 12 months from the date of signing of the financial statements. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. SKY UK LIMITED · parent
   1. Athena Discovery Labs Limited 100% · England and Wales
   2. British Sky Broadcasting Limited 100% · England and Wales
   3. Ciel Bleu 6 Limited 100% · England and Wales
   4. Diagonal View Limited 100% · England and Wales
   5. Dolphin TV Limited 100% · England and Wales
   6. Independent Fibre Retail Limited 100% · England and Wales
   7. International Channel Pack Distribution Limited 100% · England and Wales
   8. Multicultural & Ethnic Media Sales Limited 100% · England and Wales
   9. NBC Universal Global Networks UK Limited 100% · England and Wales
   10. Neos Ventures Limited 100% · England and Wales
   11. NOW TV Limited 100% · England and Wales
   12. Parthenon Media Group Limited 100% · England and Wales
   13. Rivals Digital Media Limited 100% · England and Wales
   14. Sky Corporate Secretary Limited 100% · England and Wales
   15. Sky CP Limited 100% · England and Wales
   16. Sky Global Media Limited 100% · England and Wales
   17. Sky Group Limited 100% · England and Wales
   18. Sky Healthcare Scheme 2 Limited 100% · England and Wales
   19. Sky Home Communications Limited 100% · England and Wales
   20. Sky In-Home Service Limited 100% · England and Wales
   21. Sky LLU Assets Limited 100% · England and Wales
   22. Sky Mobile Services Limited 100% · England and Wales
   23. Sky News Limited 100% · England and Wales
   24. Sky Ocean Ventures Partner Limited 100% · England and Wales
   25. Sky Pension Plan Trustees Limited 100% · England and Wales
   26. Sky Publications Limited 100% · England and Wales
   27. Sky Retail Stores Limited 100% · England and Wales
   28. Sky SNI Limited 100% · England and Wales
   29. Sky Subscribers Services Limited 100% · England and Wales
   30. Sky Telecommunications Limited 100% · England and Wales
   31. Sky Telecommunications Services Limited 100% · England and Wales
   32. Sky UK Investments Limited 100% · England and Wales
   33. Sky Ventures Limited 100% · England and Wales
   34. The Cloud Networks Limited 100% · England and Wales
   35. Una Tickets Limited 100% · England and Wales
   36. Virtuous Systems Limited 100% · England and Wales
   37. Active Voices Limited · England and Wales
   38. Agreed Voices Limited · England and Wales
   39. Blast! Films Limited · England and Wales
   40. Blast! Films - Hunger Limited · England and Wales
   41. Blast! Films - One Day Limited · England and Wales
   42. Chester Films Productions Limited · England and Wales
   43. Cymru International Limited · England and Wales
   44. Directed Voices Limited · England and Wales
   45. Factual Voices Limited · England and Wales
   46. Japan Productions Limited · England and Wales
   47. Love Productions Limited · England and Wales
   48. Low Voices Limited · England and Wales
   49. MDOA Limited · England and Wales
   50. Newserge Limited · England and Wales
   51. Parthenon 2 Limited · England and Wales
   52. Production Voices Limited · England and Wales
   53. Rising Voices Limited · England and Wales
   54. Scripted Voices Limited · England and Wales
   55. Sky Comedy Limited · England and Wales
   56. Sky History Limited · England and Wales
   57. Sky International Limited · England and Wales
   58. Sky IQ Limited · England and Wales
   59. Sky SNA Limited · England and Wales
   60. Sky SNI Operations Limited · England and Wales
   61. Sky Studios Limited · England and Wales
   62. Sky Studios Productions Limited · England and Wales
   63. Transistor Films Limited · England and Wales
   64. True North Productions Limited · England and Wales
   65. Two Plus Voices Limited · England and Wales
   66. Wider Voices Limited · England and Wales
   67. Wimbledon Common Limited · England and Wales
   68. Attheraces Holdings Limited 50.413% · England and Wales
   69. Attheraces Limited · England and Wales
   70. Attheraces (UK) Limited · England and Wales
   71. Go Racing Limited · England and Wales
   72. Planet Sub-Ocean Ltd Partnership 85% · England and Wales
   73. Sky Channel SA · Belgium
   74. Sky Labs Aalborg A/S · Denmark
   75. Sky Manufacturing Services Limited · Hong Kong
   76. Sky Ireland Limited · Ireland
   77. Sky Supply Chain Services Poland sp. z o.o. · Poland
   78. Big Sky Music, LLC · DE
   79. BSkyB US Holdings, Inc. · DE
   80. Callisto Media West, LLC · DE
   81. Catalina Content, LLC · DE
   82. Jupiter Entertainment, LLC · DE
   83. Jupiter Entertainment Holdings, LLC · DE
   84. Jupiter Entertainment North, LLC · DE
   85. Media Core, LLC · DE
   86. Octave Productions, LLC · DE
   87. The Production Hive, LLC · DE
   88. Znak & Co LLC · DE
   89. PhotoOps, LLC · TN
   90. Baking Show, LLC · CA
   91. Cotham Hill Productions, LLC · CA
   92. International Journeys, LLC · CA
   93. Jet Tracks, LLC · CA
   94. Love American Journeys, LLC · CA
   95. Love Productions USA, Inc · CA
   96. USA Love Development, LLC · CA

Significant events

• “During the year, Comcast completed an internal corporate reorganisation which principally resulted in the Company transferring Sky Germany and Sky Italy to a Comcast subsidiary outside of the Sky Group (as opposed to Sky Germany and Sky Italy being indirect subsidiaries of the Company) and which simplified and recapitalised the UK structure.”
• “In September 2024 the Company acquired an additional 1 share in SIOL, extinguishing a €200 million (£169 million) loan note receivable from Sky Limited.”
• “In October 2024 the Company transferred part of its shares in SIOL to Comcast Bidco Limited, extinguishing a £864 million loan note payable. The Company recognised a gain of £563 million on the disposal.”
• “In October 2024, the Company acquired an additional 1 share in Sky International Limited for £222 million, in exchange for the transfer of the remainder of the Company's shares in SIOL and all of the Company's shares in Sky Labs Aalborg A/S.”
• “In October 2024 the Company acquired all the share capital in Sky UK Investments Limited ("SUKI"), as repayment of £5,375 million in loan notes receivable from SIOL. Following SUKI making a distribution of £5,640 million to the Company, the Company's investment in SUKI was impaired in full.”
• “In December 2024 the Company acquired an additional 1 share in Parthenon Media Group Limited for £300 million, and subsequently recognised a £126 million impairment charge in this investment.”
• “In October 2024 the Company acquired an additional 1 share in Sky CP Limited for £222 million, in exchange for transfer of its shares in Sky International Limited.”
• “In December 2024 the Company acquired an additional 1 share in Neos Ventures Limited for £30 million.”
• “During the year, the Company continued to invest in its joint venture, SkyShowtime Limited. Due to the trading performance of SkyShowtime Limited and losses to date in its start-up phase, an impairment of £245 million was recognised during the year.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

3

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +1.6%

  £10,232,000,000 → £10,396,000,000

• Cash

  +1.7%

  £178,000,000 → £181,000,000

• Net assets

  +24.4%

  £4,691,000,000 → £5,834,000,000

• Employees

  +1.4%

  10,036 → 10,179

• Operating profit

  +50%

  -£224,000,000 → -£112,000,000

• Profit before tax

  +132.7%

  -£773,000,000 → £253,000,000

• Wages

  -2.6%

  £705,000,000 → £687,000,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers