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CHOM-FMFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchCHOM City of license Montreal, Quebec Broadcast area Greater Montreal area Branding "CHOM 97.7" Slogan "The Spirit of Rock" Frequency 97.7 MHz First air date 1963 Format classic rock ERP 41,200 watts Class C1 Callsign meaning Arbitrary coinage Owner Astral Media Sister stations CFEI, CFZZ, CHOM, CITE, CJAD, CJFM, CKMF Website CHOM 97.7 (official website) CHOM-FM is an English language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Owned and operated by Astral Media, it broadcasts on 97.7 MHz from the Mount Royal candelabra tower, with an effective radiated power of 41,200 watts (class C1) using an omnidirectional antenna.The station has a classic rock format since 2002 and has had some type of rock format since 1969. It uses the brand name CHOM, pronounced as if it were a French word (that is, "shoam", IPA: /ˈʃoʊm/, rather than "tchahm" /ˈtʃɒm/). HistoryCKGM-FM, as the station was originally known, was founded by Geoff Sterling as a sister station to AM station CKGM and opened on July 16, 1963. After a few weeks as a simulcast of CKGM, CKGM-FM launched a beautiful music format on September 1, 1963.On October 28, 1969, CKGM-FM changed its format to album-oriented rock. The first song played after the format switch was Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra followed by The Beatles' Here Comes the Sun. The station would change its call sign to CHOM-FM only two years later on October 19, 1971.In 1974, CHOM-FM proposed to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) a plan in which the station would become bilingual (English/French). The CRTC accepted this plan but only on an experimental basis that would last three years; it also blocked a plan to implement quadraphonic broadcasting. In 1977, the station was forced by the CRTC to opt between the two languages, and after considering becoming a French-language station, it finally reverted back to English fulltime. Promotional bumper sticker distributed in the 1990s by CHOM-FM with its previously used logo.CHOM-FM became increasingly popular, and in 1979 surpassed sister station CKGM in Bureau of Broadcast Measurement ratings. Both stations were sold to CHUM Limited on August 20, 1985.The 1993 loss of popular morning man Terry DiMonte to CJFM-FM (Mix 96), combined with new competition from American modern rock station WBTZ (better known as 99.9 The Buzz) starting in 1996, resulted in a decline in ratings which the station tried to stop by acquiring rights to the syndicated show of shock jock Howard Stern. Stern made his debut on CHOM-FM on September 2, 1997 amid much controversy as he launched himself on his very first show heard in Montreal in an anti-Francophone/anti-French tirade. His show was dumped a year later, on August 27,

Their music on AM radio, and it was all about Top 40 hits. Then he heard KSAN-FM. “They were playing all the music that I loved and wasn’t on the radio (anywhere else),” said Pringle. “They were playing album tracks that were seven minutes long. They were playing whole albums. They were talking about all the stuff that I was interested in, as opposed to the jock chatter that was the staple on AM radio at that time. I just couldn’t believe it. So I couldn’t wait to get back to Montreal and see if I could get a station like this happening.” As soon as Pringle returned to Montreal, he went to the Westmount offices of CKGM-FM, the precursor of CHOM, and suggested he do a show. The station was playing elevator music at the time. The general manager told him he would have to meet with the owner of the AM and FM CKGM stations, eccentric Newfoundland businessman Geoff Stirling. Stirling was living on his ranch in Arizona, and the next time he was in Montreal he agreed to meet with Pringle. So the hippie music fan went to Stirling’s suite at the Ritz-Carlton to pitch him. “Right away, I could see Geoff was a kindred spirit,” said Pringle. “I came in and Geoff and I hit it off immediately. I’m telling him about my idea. He’s getting excited. He says, ‘It would be great to do something with one of my radio stations, but how do I know you’re not completely full of s—? How do I know that there’s not just seven people like you in Montreal who are interested in this stuff?’ I said, ‘Trust me.’ He said, ‘OK. I’ll trust you three weeks.’ ” Stirling gave Pringle a four-hour nightly show, from 7 to 11, repeated from 11 to 3 a.m. If it wasn’t working after three weeks, Pringle was out the door. Their conversation happened at around 2 in the afternoon. Stirling asked if Pringle could start that night. “I said, ‘Actually, Geoff, I’m just coming down from an acid trip. Can I start tomorrow?’ ” Stirling didn’t miss a beat and said, “Sure, tomorrow it is,” Pringle recalled. Courtesy of Martin Melhuish Anyone who lived in Montreal in the 1970s knows that of course Stirling didn’t fire Pringle after three weeks. Au contraire, the adventurous sounds of late-’60s rock were an immediate