Recent from talks
WSCR
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
WSCR
WSCR (670 AM) – branded 670 The Score – is a commercial sports radio station, licensed to Chicago, Illinois, which serves 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 Chicago's oldest surviving radio station, although it is the third in the Chicago market to use the WSCR call sign and "Score" branding.
Studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Chicago Loop, while the station transmitter site is in suburban Bloomingdale, diplexed with co-owned WBBM. Besides its main analog transmission, WSCR transmits continuously over a single HD Radio channel using the in-band on-channel standard, simulcasts over the second digital subchannel of WBMX, and streams online via Audacy.
The station went on the air in April 1922 as WGU, and carried the call letters WMAQ from October 1922 to August 2000. 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, and was heard on 1160 AM from 1997 to 2000.
WSCR is the Chicago affiliate for the BetMGM 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. It is the exclusive Chicago radio outlet for DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball, Chicago Cubs baseball, and Chicago Bulls basketball. WSCR also carries other live sports programming from Infinity Sports Network and Westwood One.
The Score's long-time listeners, callers, and e-mailers are known as "Score Heads", and often use colorful monikers. The station has also done remote broadcasts from various locations.
Beginning in 2005, WSCR aired Sporting News Radio programming overnights. Currently overnight, Infinity Sports Network programming is heard on AM 670. WSCR also carries Infinity Sports Network on its Audacy live stream audio whenever it airs the NFL on Westwood One.
Effective December 1, 1921, the Department of Commerce, which regulated radio at this time, adopted a regulation creating a broadcasting station category, authorizing operation on the "entertainment" wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) and the "market and weather" wavelength of 485 meters (619 kHz).
Just weeks before the station's inaugural broadcast, Walter A. Strong, business manager of the Daily News, realized the station would need a manager. Strong knew a young woman, Judith C. Waller, with some ad agency experience. He called her and said, "I've just bought a radio station; come down and run it." Waller protested that she did not know anything about running a station. Strong replied "neither do I, but come down and we'll find out". Waller was hired in February 1922. She went on to have a long and distinguished career in broadcasting.
Hub AI
WSCR AI simulator
(@WSCR_simulator)
WSCR
WSCR (670 AM) – branded 670 The Score – is a commercial sports radio station, licensed to Chicago, Illinois, which serves 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 Chicago's oldest surviving radio station, although it is the third in the Chicago market to use the WSCR call sign and "Score" branding.
Studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Chicago Loop, while the station transmitter site is in suburban Bloomingdale, diplexed with co-owned WBBM. Besides its main analog transmission, WSCR transmits continuously over a single HD Radio channel using the in-band on-channel standard, simulcasts over the second digital subchannel of WBMX, and streams online via Audacy.
The station went on the air in April 1922 as WGU, and carried the call letters WMAQ from October 1922 to August 2000. 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, and was heard on 1160 AM from 1997 to 2000.
WSCR is the Chicago affiliate for the BetMGM 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. It is the exclusive Chicago radio outlet for DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball, Chicago Cubs baseball, and Chicago Bulls basketball. WSCR also carries other live sports programming from Infinity Sports Network and Westwood One.
The Score's long-time listeners, callers, and e-mailers are known as "Score Heads", and often use colorful monikers. The station has also done remote broadcasts from various locations.
Beginning in 2005, WSCR aired Sporting News Radio programming overnights. Currently overnight, Infinity Sports Network programming is heard on AM 670. WSCR also carries Infinity Sports Network on its Audacy live stream audio whenever it airs the NFL on Westwood One.
Effective December 1, 1921, the Department of Commerce, which regulated radio at this time, adopted a regulation creating a broadcasting station category, authorizing operation on the "entertainment" wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) and the "market and weather" wavelength of 485 meters (619 kHz).
Just weeks before the station's inaugural broadcast, Walter A. Strong, business manager of the Daily News, realized the station would need a manager. Strong knew a young woman, Judith C. Waller, with some ad agency experience. He called her and said, "I've just bought a radio station; come down and run it." Waller protested that she did not know anything about running a station. Strong replied "neither do I, but come down and we'll find out". Waller was hired in February 1922. She went on to have a long and distinguished career in broadcasting.