This chapter examines why public service broadcasters have been marginalised in the network society by examining some of the key literature about the network society concept, especially the works of Castells and Negroponte and, more recently, Jenkins and Shirky. The ways in which this literature characterises the network society and some of the aspects of reality that reflects leave public service broadcasting on the margins, or deliberately constrained. The issues explored include globalisation, neo-liberalism, participatory culture and start-ups, and the place of PSB as publicly owned national corporations in the face of these issues. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the only way for PSB to find a way out of this increasing marginalisation is to reconsider its relationship to the recent ‘left-populist’ challenge to neo-liberalism.