WSCR

WSCR
Broadcast areaChicago metropolitan area
Frequency670 kHz
Branding670 The Score
Programming
LanguageEnglish
FormatSports radio
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WBBM, WBBM-FM, WBMX, WCFS-FM, WUSN, WXRT
History
First air date
April 12, 1922 (1922-04-12)
Former call signs
  • WGU (1922)
  • WMAQ (1922–2000)
Call sign meaning
Score
Technical information
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 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.