Talk:CHOM-FM

Call Sign meaning
IIRC, the call sign was a mashup of the word "Om" (from Aum) and the French word chez (Eng. at: in the sense of chez nous - at our place. I.e. home, with which the call sign rhymes). There was already a French radio station called CHEZ-FM. The line item in the box on the right "The CHOM is French for "shōm" is nonsense and a misinterpretation of the text in the article, it would seem. Michael Daly 05:25, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Jock talk
Why not a section for current and former personalities?70.26.252.233 (talk) 16:26, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Deserves better
CHOM had a fairly big impact on the music that became popular in not just the Montreal area, but sometimes even North America. The playlists in the 70s & 80s were often more avant-garde than those in the rest of Canada. Bands from Europe (especially the UK) & the rest of the world often got a toe-hold in NA because of air-play on CHOM. I could give examples but I'd have to double-check my memory banks. I was a humble listener back then but surely this history has been documented somewhere? --Yickbob (talk) 07:53, 21 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree - calling it "mainstream rock" from 1969 to the mid 70s is wrong. It was definitely not mainstream - I remember Meatball Fulton playing his "3000 voice frog choir" tapes for an hour at a time!  Then there were the Baba Ram Dass lectures (recorded) and plays such as Waiting For Godot.  The music covered the full spectrum of rock with blues, some jazz and even a bit of classical as the DJ's mood dictated.


 * It should also be noted that the transition from the jazz/classical format to rock was gradual. Initially, only 4 hours a night were programmed by Doug Pringle (22:00 to 02:00).  It was later extended to 06:00 with a second DJ.  Later still it went to a 24 hour format with a lot of variety in the music and other information played.99.245.230.104 (talk) 11:52, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Call letters song in 70's was Ennio Moricone's music from 'A Fistful of Dynamite'
In the 1970's, CHOM, instead of using the usual chorus singing the station's call letters, used snippets of Ennio Morricone's score for 'A Fistful of Dynamite', which by coincidence has the nonsense syllable 'shom' repeated here and there. Listen to sections at 0:48 1:52 and 3:50 in this youtube video: The first instance at 0:48 even mimics the 3 tones that the Montreal metro made at the time when accelerating out of the station (due to its voltage control). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierre-Dufresne (talk • contribs) 15:36, 13 July 2020 (UTC)