So, without any guidance from west London or Pacific Quay, it's up to the SNP to figure out how it carves Scotland out of the BBC without losing the elements that viewers and listeners value.
Even at their most opaque, the animated puppet films of the Brothers Quay (Philadelphia-born identical twins who now live in London) are eerily moving, like ancient volumes brought from the obscurity of a Borgesian library into the light.
The Big Issue cited talk of a looser "BBC family" arrangement, in which Pacific Quay bosses have autonomy and have to find a new set of working arrangements with colleagues in London and Salford.