[interestednovice]

I’d fear that the next thing would be that even the new “BBC PSB” would be called into question, and the funding would be totally withdrawn so the BBC ended up subscription-only, exclusionary and increasingly irrelevant.

I could forsee a scenario where BBC-critical voices would suggest that the commercial part of the BBC, in the proposal being discussed here, was so successful that it ought to be able to cross-subsidise the “BBC PSB” part - so funding from government would be reduced or removed, and Ofcom would instead “transfer” those responsibilities to the commercial BBC. It would be a re-run of the arguments made for reducing Foreign Office funding for the World Service. Then, that would prove unviable quite quickly so the “free” parts would be gradually cut, closed and reduced until the BBC was no longer special or unique at all.