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Some more factoids from the Samira Ahmed v BBC equal pay case...

Samira calculates that she's owed £693,245 in back pay for her tenure as Newswatch presenter, if the tribunal rules the work is equivalent to presenting Points of View. 

Did the BBC waste its money on Jeremy Vine as the presenter to revitalise Points Of View ? When he started, in 2008, on some £3k a show, the ratings, inherited from Sir Terry Wogan, were in the region of 2m. By 2015, one rating was down to 1.3m.  The NUJ claims that the final Vine ratings were around 800k.

Anne Robinson, who presented Points of View for ten years from 1987, was in her final year paid £1,250 a show. Carol Vorderman, one of a string of "guest presenters", who took over when Anne left, was paid £1,400 a show in 1998.  Des Lynam's agent missed a trick - he got £1,250.