Occupation TV presenter Parents Francois Lescure Name Pierre Lescure Movies A Day at the Museum | Role Journalist Children Anna Lescure Spouse Frederique Lescure Grandparents Pierre de Lescure | |
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Born July 2, 1945 (age 78) ( 1945-07-02 ) Paris, France Similar People Catherine Deneuve, Alain de Greef, Fred Romano, Andre Rousselet, Anne‑Sophie Lapix | ||
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Pierre Lescure (born July 2, 1945), is a French journalist and television executive. He is best known for having found the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal+ channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002.
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He is the son of François Lescure, French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper L'Humanité, and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure, founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi. He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris.
He started his career at the radio station RTL, where he was reporter and news anchor from 1965 to 1968, and moved to RMC from 1968 to 1972.
He started working in television as a news anchor of the evening news program of the French public network Antenne 2. In 1981, he created the TV music show Les Enfants du rock.
He supported the candidacy of François Hollande during the French presidential election, 2012, and has led a mission about Culture and Media in his government.
He became president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.