WSCR serves as the Chicago affiliate for the BetQL Audio Network, CBS Sports Radio, 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.
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WSCR studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Chicago Loop, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Bloomingdale, diplexed with co-owned WBBM.
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Since 2000, this station has been the third in the Chicago market to use the WSCR call sign and "Score" branding, adopting a format previously heard on the current WYLL from 1997 to 2000; the format and branding originated in 1992 on the current WCPT 820 AM.
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WSCR called her and said, “I've just bought a radio station; come down and run it.
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WSCR went on to have a long and distinguished career in broadcasting.
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WSCR went on to WGN-TV, where he continued to participate in local children's television.
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The "Score" format, branding and call letters had its origins on the former WSCR, which launched on January 2,1992; the second WSCR on the 1160 AM facility debuted on April 17,1997.
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All three iterations of WSCR utilized the same studios at 4949 West Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Cragin neighborhood—shared with WXRT—from 1992 until moving to the NBC Tower in 2001, using the facilities that WMAQ had vacated a year earlier.
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WSCR was the radio home for the Chicago White Sox baseball team from 2006 to 2015, until their departure to WLS at the conclusion of the 2015 season.
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In 2010, WSCR's studios were moved to Two Prudential Plaza, home to several other CBS Radio stations.
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The Cubs' first year on WSCR paid immediate dividends, as the team won the 2016 World Series, its first world championship in 108 years, and the first since the birth of radio and modern communications.
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On January 31,2018, Entercom announced that WSCR would become the new flagship station for the Chicago Bulls on February 3,2018, after Cumulus Media nullified its contract with the team to carry games on WLS after Cumulus filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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WSCR is the exclusive Chicago radio outlet for Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball and football along with Chicago Cubs baseball.
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WSCR carries other live sports programming from CBS Sports Radio and Westwood One, including Monday Night Football.
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