CHRE-FM (105.7MHz) is acommercialradio station inSt. Catharines,Ontario, Canada, servingNiagara Region. It is owned byGolden Horseshoe Broadcasting (temporarily under license to Bell Media) and is branded asMove 105.7. CHRE broadcasts anadult contemporaryformat. CHRE sharesstudios with itssister stations,CKTB andCHTZ-FM, in "Oak Hill Mansion", the former home ofWilliam Hamilton Merritt, at 12 Yates Street in downtown St. Catharines.

CHRE-FM has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000watts. Thetransmitter is on Cataract Road inThorold, sharing itstower with CHTZ-FM.^[1]

On March 20, 1967, the stationsigned on the air. Its owner was Radio Station CHSC Ltd., along with CHSCAM 1220 (nowCFAJ). At first, CHSC-AM-FMsimulcast much of their programming.

By 1970, the two stations were doing their own programming with CHSC-FM adopting a "Beautiful Music" format. During this time the station had a number of popular specialty programs. "A Starlight Concert" heard weeknights from 10 to 11pm features light classical music introduced by Francis Kirton who became the station's fine arts director. Kirton also hosted the Sunday morning programs "Variety Theatre" featuring condensations of popular operettas recorded by the Reader's Digest Association, "Concert in the Park" featuring marches and brass band music, "Waltz Time", a half-hour of familiar music in3/4 time and "At the Console" showcasing the world's great theatre organs.

Other specialty programs included "Ray Wickens' Broadway" hosted by British theatre aficionado Ray Wickens and featuring full original cast recordings; and "The Golden Age of Comedy" hosted by Armand Romagnoli and Mark Lawrence presenting classic comedy routines and old-time radio comedies. For a time in the late 1970s the station also carried the syndicated version of "The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre". The station's most popular program was "Howard Cable Presents" hosted byHoward Cable who was, at the time, the music director for theImperial Room at theFairmont Royal York hotel inToronto. The program showcased many of the performers appearing at the Imperial Room as well as popular songs from shows and movies,Big Band favorites andClassical music.

On July 1, 1979, the callsign was changed toCHRE-FM for station owner R.E. (Robert) Redmond. By 1985, Redmond determined that the "beautiful music" audience was rapidly aging and opted to switch to asoft rock/adult contemporary format geared to a younger audience. At this time, all of the specialty programs were dropped.

The parent company became known as Redmond Communications in 1985 and was granted a license to open CJEZ-FM (nowCHBM-FM) inToronto. The station was subsequently sold to Affinity Radio Group in 1999.

Affinity was acquired byTelemedia the following year, and Telemedia was itself bought out byStandard Broadcasting in 2002.

In October 2007,Astral Media acquired Standard Broadcasting's terrestrial radio and television assets, including CHRE.

On July 5, 2013,Bell Media officially took ownership of Astral Media, and as a result, CHRE became a part of Bell Media's radio station group.

In January 2015, CHRE-FM's first home, the former CHSC studios at 36 Queenston Street inSt. Catharines, was demolished; its land will be used for a four-storey apartment building.^[2]

On December 27, 2020, as part of a mass format reorganization byBell Media Radio, CHRE rebranded asMove 105.7. While the station would run jockless for the first week of the format, on-air staff would return on January 4, 2021.^[3] CHRE was the last radio station in Ontario under the "EZ Rock" branding, which continued to exist on a chain of Bell Media radio stations inBritish Columbia, before they were flipped to theadult hits "Bounce" brand in May 2021.

On February 8, 2024, Bell announced a restructuring that included the sale of 45 of its 103 radio stations to seven buyers, subject to approval by the CRTC, including CHRE, which is to be sold toWhiteoaks Communications Group.^[4] The CRTC approved the purchase on December 19, 2024.^[5]

• Move 105.7
• CHRE-FM at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by theCanadian Communications Foundation
• CHRE-FM in the REC Canadian station database

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