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CHOM 97.7 turns 50 on Monday, but remains a kid at heart. Some of its DJs may be fast approaching their senior years, but the music, in the words of bard Bob Dylan, keeps them forever young. And their listeners, too.

To mark its milestone anniversary, the station is presenting a concert Monday at MTelus featuring such performers as the Tea Party, Sam Roberts Band, Michel Pagliaro and the Damn Truth, all of whom have received plenty of CHOM airplay over the years. Priced at $9.77, the tickets sold out within minutes of the show being announced last month.

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Government broadcasting regulations have changed dramatically since the station’s free-form early days. But then as now, CHOM has served as Montreal’s classic rock station for anglos and francos alike.

CHOM is licensed as an English-language radio station only, but reaches an audience of close to 1.4 million listeners a week, and 65 per cent of its Montreal listeners are French-speaking, according to program director Mathew Wood.