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# What will be left of the BBC in 2028?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/what-will-be-left-of-the-bbc-in-2028/
- Published: 2022-01-19T11:07:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-21T20:29:56.000Z
- Description: The UK’s culture secretary wants to appease right-wingers by abolishing the licence fee. Will the market now rule all broadcasting? And would that be that a bad thing?
- Author: Anita Mureithi
- Tags: Home, #Migrated, Media & communications, United Kingdom, BBC, #video-appended, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 14:19, #ImagesUploaded, #appended-excerpt

Hear from:  
**David Elstein** Provisional: Former director of programmes at Thames, head of programming at BSkyB and chief executive of Channel 5 at its launch  
**Lindsay Mackie** Provisional: Writer and partner in the NewWeather Institute, which examines social and economic alternatives to neoliberalism  
**Marcus Ryder** Head of external consultancies at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, and the chair of RADA. He is also a former BBC news and current affairs executive, having worked for the corporation for 24 years

The UK’s culture secretary wants to appease right-wingers by abolishing the licence fee. Will the market now rule all broadcasting? And would that be that a bad thing?