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Business Finance Built Around the Broadcast & Media Cycle
Broadcast and media businesses operate in a sector where opportunity, expenditure and payment do not always happen at the same time.
A new production, outside broadcast, live event or technical contract can require significant expenditure before the corresponding revenue reaches the business.
Crew and freelancers may need booking. Equipment and facilities need securing. Travel and accommodation can require advance payment. Specialist kit may need hiring. Technology may need upgrading.
At the same time, invoices from completed work may still be moving through a broadcaster, production company, rights holder, federation, agency or other customer’s approval process.
VAT, tax, payroll and everyday overheads continue regardless.
The result is a familiar challenge across the sector:
A business can have confirmed work, strong customers and a healthy order book while still experiencing pressure on working capital.
MacManus Asset Finance helps UK broadcast and media businesses explore commercial finance for equipment investment, outstanding invoices, tax liabilities, production costs and general working capital.
Who We Support
Our broadcast and media finance solutions may be suitable for businesses including:
- Outside Broadcast companies
- Television production companies
- Independent production companies
- Live sports production businesses
- Broadcast technical suppliers
- Media production companies
- Post-production houses
- Studios and facilities businesses
- Camera and broadcast equipment companies
- Audio and communications specialists
- Lighting and technical production companies
- Live event production businesses
- AV and technical services companies
- Specialist broadcast crewing businesses
- Businesses supplying broadcasters, rights holders and production companies
Every business operates differently, so the starting point is understanding where funding is required within your commercial cycle.
Finance for the Broadcast & Media Production Cycle
Win the Work
A new commission or contract can create an immediate requirement for cash before revenue begins to arrive. Crew bookings, supplier deposits, travel and other mobilisation costs can all arise at an early stage.
Mobilise
Productions, OBs and live events can require substantial upfront commitments.
That may include freelancers, facilities, equipment rental, travel, accommodation and specialist subcontractors.
Invest in Equipment
Maintaining the right technical capability may require ongoing investment in cameras, lenses, vision, audio, communications, lighting, replay, editing, storage and other technology.
Asset finance can help spread the cost of eligible equipment.
Produce and Deliver
While the work is being delivered, cash continues to leave the business.
Crew, suppliers and other operational costs still need paying irrespective of the customer’s eventual payment date.
Invoice the Customer
The job may be complete, but the financial cycle is not necessarily finished.
Invoice finance can allow eligible businesses to release a proportion of the value of outstanding invoices instead of simply waiting for the normal customer payment cycle.
Meet VAT and Tax Liabilities
HMRC deadlines do not necessarily coincide with customer receipts.
Tax funding may help spread the impact of an eligible VAT or corporation tax liability on business cash flow.
Manage Customer Credit Risk
Until an invoice has been paid, the business retains an exposure to that customer.
Trade credit insurance can provide protection against specified insured risks such as customer insolvency or qualifying non-payment.
Our Broadcast & Media Finance Solutions
Broadcast & Media
Asset Finance
Own the kit. Preserve the cash.
Broadcast equipment is highly specialised and can require significant capital investment. Asset finance can help eligible businesses acquire new or used equipment while spreading the cost over an agreed term. Potential assets can include cameras, lenses, vision systems, sound, communications, lighting, replay equipment, post-production systems, servers, storage and commercial vehicles
Broadcast & Media
Invoice Finance
You’ve delivered. Why wait for all the cash?
Completed work can still leave significant cash tied up in outstanding invoices. Invoice finance can allow eligible businesses to release working capital against those receivables to support crew payments, suppliers, overheads and future work.
Broadcast & Media
Business Loans
Fund the gap between opportunity and income.
Not every cost relates to an asset or invoice.
Business loans can provide funding for mobilisation, recruitment, facilities, technology, expansion and wider working-capital requirements.
Broadcast & Media
VAT & Tax Loans
HMRC works to its timetable. Your projects work to yours.
A VAT or tax payment can fall due while customer invoices remain outstanding or another production is being mobilised.
Tax funding may allow eligible businesses to spread the impact of the liability over an agreed repayment period.
Broadcast & Media
Revolving Credit
Working capital that can move with your workload.
Production and project requirements rarely stay constant throughout the year. A revolving credit facility can provide an agreed funding limit that may typically be drawn, repaid and redrawn, subject to the facility terms.
Broadcast & Media
Credit Insurance
Protect the revenue you’ve worked to earn.
Even established customers create credit exposure until they pay.
Trade credit insurance can provide protection against specified insured losses arising from customer insolvency or qualifying non-payment.
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The Financial Challenge Behind
a Successful Production
Consider an outside broadcast or live production business delivering a major sporting event.
Before the event takes place, the business may have committed cash to:
- Technical crew
- Freelancers
- Equipment hire
- Lighting
- Audio
- Rigging
- Travel
- Accommodation
- Facilities
- Specialist suppliers
- Production support
The production is delivered successfully and the client is invoiced.
But the business may still need to settle suppliers, pay crew, meet VAT and begin mobilising another job before the previous invoice is paid.
That creates an important distinction.
Profitability does not automatically equal liquidity.
The appropriate form of commercial finance can help bridge the timing difference between expenditure and income.
Why MacManus Asset Finance?
MacManus Asset Finance is an independent commercial finance brokerage, not a lender.
Our role is not to approach every requirement with the same product.
We begin by understanding:
- What does the business need to fund?
- When is the money required?
- What is driving the expenditure?
- When is revenue expected back into the business?
- Are assets or eligible invoices available?
- Is the requirement one-off or recurring?
- How does the borrowing fit within the wider cash-flow cycle?
We can then explore appropriate funding options from our panel of commercial finance providers.
MacManus Asset Finance is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and is an NACFB Assured brokerage.
We were named Business Moneyfacts Asset Finance Broker of the Year 2024 and Commended in 2025.
Talk Us Through Your Next Project
Whether you are investing in equipment, funding a production, waiting for customer payments or managing a tax liability, speak to MacManus Asset Finance about the commercial funding options that may be available.
Broadcast & Media Finance FAQs
Funding may be available to businesses across broadcast, television production, outside broadcast, post-production, live events, AV, studios and specialist technical services. Eligibility depends on the business, funding requirement and lender.
Potentially, yes. Cameras, lenses, sound, lighting, vision systems, communications, editing, storage and other specialist equipment may be eligible depending on lender criteria.
Potentially. Businesses raising eligible B2B invoices may be able to release working capital through invoice finance, subject to the customer, invoice and facility structure.
Business loans or revolving credit facilities may be more appropriate where funding is required before an eligible invoice exists.
VAT loans can fund eligible VAT liabilities, allowing the business to spread the cash-flow impact over an agreed term.
Potentially. For example, a company might use asset finance for equipment alongside a separate invoice finance or working-capital facility. Suitability and affordability would need to be considered.
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