# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rowan-ayers
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:42:03.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rowan-ayers"
name: "Rowan Ayers"
slug: "rowan-ayers"
description: "Rowan Ayers was a British television producer and executive. He was best known as producer of BBC's Line-Up and Late Night Line-Up in the 1960s. He was the originator of BBCs influential late night rock music show The Old Grey Whistle Test and the long-running Points of View. He was also responsible for the BBC's Open Door."
tagline: "British television producer and executive"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-06-16"
deathDate: "2008-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.94
  momentum:             1.948051948051948
  historical:           2.209936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1715508/"
    handle:    "nm1715508"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Ayers"
    title: "Rowan Ayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7371779"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2253883"
    title: "Rowan Ayers"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations