P.V. Krishnamoorthy, veteran broadcast journalist , died at his residence in Chennai on Wednesday afternoon. He was 98. He is survived by his two sons, including P.K. Balachandran, a Colombo-based journalist.
Born in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 1,1921, he did graduation in English literature there and as a World War II refugee from the Southeast Asian country, he joined External Services Division, All India Radio (AIR), as news reader/announcer in 1944. He went on to become Station Director of the AIR in Chennai and Kolkata and of the Doordarshan Kendra in New Delhi and Mumbai.
He played a
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An avid connoisseur of art and music, he was elected as Vice-Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, which presented the Tagore Akademi Ratna (Fellowship) to him in 2012. A recipient of several honours and awards, he was the first broadcaster to receive the Media Ratna award of the Indian Broadcasters Forum in 2011.
One of his grandchildren, Kanishkaa Balachandran, is a chief sub-editor with
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