WSCR

For other uses, see WSCR (disambiguation).

WSCR
Broadcast areaChicago metropolitan area
Frequency670 kHz
Branding670 The Score
Programming
Language(s)English
FormatSports radio
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WBBM, WBBM-FM, WBMX, WCFS-FM, WUSN, WXRT[1]
History
First air date
April 12, 1922; 102 years ago (1922-04-12)[2]
Former call signs
  • WGU (1922)
  • WMAQ (1922–2000)
Call sign meaning
Score
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID25445
ClassA
Power50,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates
Repeater(s)104.3 WBMX-HD2 (Chicago)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen live (via Audacy)
Websitewww.audacy.com/670thescore

WSCR (670 AM) – branded 670 The Score – is a commercial sports radio station licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois, and the Chicago metropolitan area. Owned by Audacy, Inc., WSCR is a clear-channel station with extended nighttime range in most of the Central United States and part of the Eastern United States. WSCR is the Chicago affiliate for the BetQL Network, Infinity Sports Network, the Fighting Illini Sports Network and the NFL on Westwood One Sports; the flagship station for the Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bulls radio networks; and the home of radio personalities David Haugh and Matt Spiegel.

The WSCR studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Chicago Loop, while the station transmitter is in suburban Bloomingdale, diplexed with co-owned WBBM. Besides its main analog transmission, WSCR transmits continuously[note 1] over a single HD Radio channel using the in-band on-channel standard,[4] simulcasts over the second digital subchannel of WBMX, and streams online via Audacy.

Historically, this station carried the call letters WMAQ from October 1922 to August 2000.[5] As the oldest surviving broadcast outlet in Chicago, it was co-founded and operated by the Chicago Daily News and became a charter affiliate of the CBS Radio Network upon their 1927 launch. Purchased by the National Broadcasting Company in 1931, WMAQ was a key station in the NBC Radio Network for nearly six decades, and later started affiliates WMAQ-TV (channel 5) and WMAQ-FM (101.1 FM). A sale to Westinghouse Broadcasting in 1988 resulted in WMAQ becoming an all-news radio station throughout the 1990s. Since 2000, the station has been the third in the Chicago market to use the WSCR call sign and "Score" branding, adopting a format that originated in 1992 on 820 AM,[6] and was heard on 1160 AM from 1997 to 2000.

  1. ^ Janowski, Thaddeus P. (September 29, 2010). "FCC 316: Application for Consent to Assign Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License or to Transfer Control of Entity Holding Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License (BTCH-20100930AFL)". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Soared was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WSCR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ^ McLarnon, Barry (April 18, 2016). "AM IBOC Stations on the Air". Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  5. ^ Kirk, Jim. "Infinity Kills WMAQ to Move Score to 670", Chicago Tribune. July 11, 2000. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  6. ^ "Street Talk", Radio & Records, January 3, 1992. p. 20. Retrieved January 22, 2020.


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