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Longtime music insider Mike Bezzeg has died in hospital from injuries sustained in a vehicle collision near his home on Monday.

Just before the crash, Bezzeg had delivered food to a friend who recently returned from Cuba and needed to self-quarantine.

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Considered Canada’s first VJ, Bezzeg hosted the pioneering music cable show FM Moving Pictures from 1979 to 1984 and is credited with introducing a generation of Calgarians to new music through interviews and what was then the relatively new art form of music videos. In late 2019, he launched InnerView with Mike Bezzeg on YouTube, which featured long-form interviews with people such as musician and producer Russell Broom, Olympic gold-medal swimmer Mark Tewksbury, singer-songwriter Tom Phillips and icon Art Bergmann.

On Bezzeg’s InnerView Facebook site, his brother, Thom, broke the news to friends and fans and asked for privacy. He thanked the many people who sent messages and said they would announce a service at a later point.

Bezzeg is survived by his wife, Odette, and two children, Aja and Christian.