# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-bezencon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:40.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-bezencon"
name: "Marcel Bezençon"
slug: "marcel-bezencon"
description: "Marcel Bezençon was a Swiss journalist, media executive and the director of the European Broadcasting Union between 1954 and 1970. In 1955, he conceived the idea of the Eurovision Song Contest, based on the famous Sanremo Music Festival."
tagline: "Swiss broadcasting executive (1907-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marcel_Bezen%C3%A7on_(1980).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CH"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1907-05-01"
deathDate: "1981-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  199
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump