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WCHR-FM, known on-air as "Jersey's Home of Classic Rock, 105.7 The Hawk", is a Manahawkin, New Jersey radio station broadcasting at 105.7 FM with a classic rock format. It is owned by Millennium Radio Group, but was initially put on the air by Nassau Broadcasting, which has sold most of their mid Atlantic stations and shifted its focus out of its original area and into New England.
WCHR-FM is the most powerful FM station in the Monmouth/Ocean market and can be heard as far west as Philadelphia, as far north as Central Monmouth County, and as far south as the Ocean City, New Jersey area. Its transmitter is located in Manahawkin, New Jersey.
WCHR-FM is not affiliated with WCHR-AM, a Trenton, New Jersey radio station that currently broadcasts on 920 AM with a religious format; that station is still owned by Nassau Broadcasting.
The WCHR call letters were originally associated with the Trenton, New Jersey station broadcasting at 94.5 FM, using a religious format (CHR standing for Christian Radio). In February 1998, WCHR began simulcasting on 920 AM, and in early Spring 1998 94.5 FM changed call letters to WNJO as it flipped format to Oldies. For more on the 94.5 frequency, see the WPST page.
105.7 was a Construction permit that Nassau acquired in 1998. When WCHR's religious unit moved over to AM 920 from 94.5 FM, the CP on 105.7 picked up the WCHR-FM call letters. 105.7 never employed the religious format. It did not sign on until 2000 when it took a similar Classic Hits Format that Nassau was airing on stations like WNNJ-FM and soon after on WODE and WNJO. Nassau gave Millennium Radio the option to buy the station in the deal that transferred the ownership of WJLK-FM, WOBM-FM, WBBO-FM, WADB and WOBM in June of 2002. Nassau operated WCHR until its sale was completed a year later in July of 2003.
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