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Company description
VIAPLAY GROUP UK LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 9 March 1988; registered for 38 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 60200 · Television programming and broadcasting activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- VIAPLAY GROUP UK LIMITED
- Company number
- 02228654
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 3 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
23 May 2026Next statement due
6 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 30 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 10 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £202,724,185
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £42,664,819
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £6,011,832
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £4,415,055
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 38.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 1,837 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
When acquiring content we may agree to pay instalments over multiple years.
Payment terms are set out in our contracts with suppliers and are typically in the range 30 to 60 days from receipt of a valid invoice. Under certain long-term contracts invoices are received years in advance of due date.
This increases the maximum contractual payment period.
There are two payment runs per week, therefore some suppliers may receive payment either 1 or 2 working days before or after the stated due date.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard terms are typically between 30 and 60 days from the receipt of a valid invoice. There are two payment runs per week when valid invoices are paid as they fall due.
- Dispute resolution process
We aim to resolve invoice and payment disputes as quickly as possible. The Finance Operations function is the first point of contact for dispute resolution. As required the business contact will assist.
Finance Operations should be the first point of contact for payment or invoice queries. Contact should be made using the email address
AP.GBS@viaplaygroup.com
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 42.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay42.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay43.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
VIAPLAY GROUP UK LIMITED
LEI 549300DJ6GL0V18F4O65 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 9 March 1988
- Initial LEI registration
- 16 January 2014
- LEI last updated
- 17 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 25 October 2026
- Managing LOU
- 529900T8BM49AURSDO55
- Other legal names
- NORDIC ENTERTAINMENT GROUP UK LIMITED; MODERN TIMES GROUP MTG LIMITED; VIASAT BROADCASTING UK LIMITED; MTG BROADCASTING UK LIMITED; Z RADIO LIMITED
- Legal address
- Chiswick Green, 610 Chiswick High Road, London, GB-LND, W4 5RU, GB
- Headquarters address
- Chiswick Green, 610 Chiswick High Road, London, GB-LND, W4 5RU, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 549300DJ6GL0V18F4O65 to LEI 5493006E0IJD0DHJSR89
- Initial registration
- 10 October 2023
- Last updated
- 17 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 25 October 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00; End: 2022-12-31T00:00:00+00:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2018-12-17T00:00:00+00:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Quantifiers
- Method: ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION; Amount: 100.00; Units: PERCENTAGE
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 549300DJ6GL0V18F4O65 to LEI 5493006E0IJD0DHJSR89
- Initial registration
- 10 October 2023
- Last updated
- 17 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 25 October 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00; End: 2022-12-31T00:00:00+00:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2018-12-17T00:00:00+00:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Quantifiers
- Method: ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION; Amount: 100.00; Units: PERCENTAGE
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- VIAPLAY GROUP UK LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- Nordic Entertainment Group AB
- Statement period
- 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020
- Approved
- 25 March 2021
- Sectors
- Media, publishing, arts and entertainment Other
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 23 July 2021
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
ViaPlay Group UK Limited
Registration ZA532391
- Registered from
- 1 July 2019
- Current end date
- 30 June 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Viaplay Group Ab
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Sweden
- Legal authority
- Swedish
- Legal form
- Public Company
- Place registered
- Swedish Companies Register
- Registration number
- 559124-6847
- Notified
- 31 January 2019
Modern Times Group Mtg Ab
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- Sweden
- Legal authority
- Companies Act
- Legal form
- Limited Liability Company
- Place registered
- Swedish Companies Registration Office
- Registration number
- 556309-9158
- Notified
- 1 August 2016
- Ceased
- 23 April 2019
Mtg Broadcasting Ab
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Sweden
- Legal authority
- Swedish
- Legal form
- Limited Liability Company
- Place registered
- The Swedish Companies Registration Office'S Companies Register
- Registration number
- 556353-2687
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 23 May 2017
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: NORDIC ENTERTAINMENT GROUP UK LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: MODERN TIMES GROUP MTG LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: VIASAT BROADCASTING UK LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.