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I do find it ever-so-slightly suspect that the presenters chosen to stay on were nearly all World faces anyway. Maybe it just so happened that they performed the best in the recruitment process - I don't know - but on the face of it, it is certainly a little odd.

It might seem a bit odd for the stars to align like that, but then they wouldn't by-and-large have already been World's senior presenters if executives didn't already think they were top quality. And you've got to remember there weren't many News channel presenters of similar seniority/prestige in the running - Hill, Myrie and Chakrabarti moved to the network team, Gosling chose not to do it and Croxall likely ruled herself out with her criticism of the project. Brown and McVeigh are only other 'senior' presenters I can think of.

Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if there were some other issues at play - the salary that was quoted for senior presenter was noticeably higher than that of a News channel presenter, but more in line with senior presenters on BBC World News. If they wanted to retain their key World faces, probably easier if you don't ask them to take a pay cut.