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It might also explain why World presenters tended to get the job if they were already paid a fee more fitting of the commercial sector than the licence fee funded sector.  The nature of the merger meant those salaries were unlikely to be reduced, and therefore those already close to them would be more likely to be selected for the new roles than the staff who although doing a similar job for similar hours were possibly on half the amount.

I did suggest something like this at the time - most of the 'promoted' were the ones who'd otherwise be taking a pay cut (though, to be fair, the fact they were at the higher level suggests BBC managers already thought they were, in some respect, better). Basically, pay for the senior World News presenters was around £180k, while only a handful of News channel presenters (the ones who also did network, plus Gosling) were ever high enough to get on the pay disclosure list (i.e., above £150k). I believe typical NC presenter pay was suggested to be about £120k.