S Chandramohan “helped me get my views across”, PM Lee Kuan Yew.
BROADCAST GURU from Naval Base Khalsa Crescent, S Chandramohan was a pioneer of the broadcast industry in Singapore and over his career spanning five decades, he served in key executive positions in the industry, initiated and developed many current affairs programmes and nurtured several generations of broadcast journalists and documentary producers. Near the start of his long career, he was the TV director of the historic TV press conference which revealed that Singapore had been forced out of Malaysia. His instructions to the cameraman resulted in the now famous image of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s emotional moment on that historic day in 1965. Chandramohan’s lasting legacy - the development of broadcast journalism in Singapore – was acknowledged and remembered when he died in August 2010, aged 71. Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew wrote: “He was most capable and helped me get my views across, first on radio, then on television, during all the years I was Prime M