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WSCR is a 50,000 watt clear-channel station sports radio station in the Chicago, Illinois radio market. The station is owned by CBS Radio and transmits on 670 kHz on the AM dial. Its transmitter is located just off Army Trail Road in Bloomingdale, which is a western suburb of Chicago, and its studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Loop. It is known as "The Score," and has been on the air since 1992. WSCR is currently the radio flagship home for Chicago White Sox baseball as well as Illinois Fighting Illini football and men's basketball. WSCR also carries other live sports programming from Westwood One, including Monday Night Football. From 2001 to 2008, the station was the flagship for Chicago Blackhawks hockey, until their move to WGN (720).
In April 2016 WSCR will be the new flagship station for the Chicago Cubs moving over from sister station WBBM (780). The move was facilitated by the move of the Chicago White Sox to WLS-AM (890) starting in 2016.
WSCR is licensed for a hybrid (analog plus digital) signal; HD1 duplicates traditional (analog) broadcasting.[1] WSCR can also be heard on WJMK HD2.
The station initially signed on at 820 AM in 1992 as a non-clear channel station only. This meant that after sundown the station had to sign off. It moved to 1160 AM in 1997, and to its current frequency of 670 AM — a 50,000-watt clear-channel signal acquired when Viacom ceased broadcasting WMAQ's all-news format in August 2000, and subsequently divested the 1160 frequency due to FCC limits on ownership (see WMAQ (AM) and WYLL). WSCR broadcast from 4949 W. Belmont Ave. on the northwest side of Chicago in the building where sister station WXRT made its broadcasts. WSCR ceased broadcasting from that location in 2001 and the transmitter in that location was never used again,
Before 1992, the WSCR call letters were on 1220 in Hamden, CT. Prior to that they were the longtime radio call letters for a station in Scranton, Pennsylvania at 1320 AM.
670 AM in Chicago was previously known as WMAQ; see Broadcast Facilities below.
The Score is known for various concepts, such as:
Starting in 2005, WSCR started airing Sporting News Radio overnights (now limited to Saturday and Sunday a.m. and other fill-in time slots). It also began airing the Dan Patrick show on a delayed basis in 2007. Now overnights are primarily covered by Les Grobstein. WSCR also airs CBS Sports Radio on its website whenever it airs the NFL on Dial Global or the White Sox, which do not allow live streaming.
The station is the exclusive Chicago radio outlet for Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball and football along with Chicago Cubs (starting 2016) baseball, Westwood One's coverage of NFL football, and pre/postgame shows.
Twice an hour, there are minute-long "Score Board Updates" by reporters with game results and highlighted stories of the day. Many producers are on-air contributors and fill in when other hosts have days off. Other reporters include Julie Dicaro, Zach Zaidman, David Schuster, Nick Shepkowski, and Jay Zawaski.
Weekends constitute of local shows by Mike Esposito, Steve Rosenbloom and Mark Grote (Rosenbloom and Grote host a show known as the Wake & Bake show), Matt Rodewald, and "White Sox Weekly" with Chris Rongey, as well as syndicated shows from CBS Sports Radio. Also on the weekends, The Score broadcasts NCAA games, White Sox baseball and NFL playoffs through Westwood One.
The Score has had three primary broadcast facilities in its years on the air. The first was at 4949 West Belmont Avenue on the Northwest Side of Chicago. The second, with them moving to the 670 frequency after the merger of Westinghouse and CBS Radio, was at the NBC Tower. Currently the station is located in Two Prudential Plaza, along with several other CBS-owned stations.
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