Transistor Films Limited
Registered name: TRANSISTOR FILMS LIMITED
Part of Comcast Corporation groupTransistor Films Limited made £4m revenue and a £47.1k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2023.
Transistor Films Limited’s revenue fell 37% to £4m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with a loss of £47.1k and 23 employees. The company is classified under “television programme production activities” and is based in Manchester; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Liquidation
- Location
- Manchester
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £6.3m | £4m |
| Cost of sales | −£5.7m | −£3.7m |
| Gross profit | £652k | £222k |
| Operating profit | £377k | −£25.1k |
| Profit before tax | £354k | −£47.1k |
| Profit after tax | £354k | −£47.1k |
| Profit (best available) | £354k | −£47.1k |
| Employees (average) | 31 | 23 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 5.6% | −1.2% |
| Gross margin | 10.3% | 5.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £203k | £172k |
| Profit per employee | £11.4k | −£2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼37.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼113.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼25.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 5.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £172k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼26%
- Now 23
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Comcast Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Sky New Media Ventures Limited75–100%
- Sky Limited75–100%
- Sky UK Limited75–100%
- Sky Ventures Limited75–100%
- Transistor Films Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (7)
- Love Productions LimitedRev. £76.8m · Profit £19.2m
- Attheraces Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Blast ! Films LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sky Comedy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sky History LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Sky Iq LimitedFigures not disclosed
- True North Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2023 (profit −£47.1k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 18 Oct 2026
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