Programming
The Score is known for various concepts, such as:
- The station's relationship with long-time listeners. Many of the original listeners from the station's inception remain dedicated listeners, callers, and contributors. Many supply regular contributions to the station in the form of faxes and e-mails. Some callers and e-mailers, known as "Score Heads," use colorful monikers, such as "Formula One Boy","Schmutzie," "9-Iron", "Stan from Bellwood," "Whitley from Ravenswood," The Gridiron Assassin," "Rusty from Stickney," "Bichiro," "LeBron James's Hummer," "Alex from Rogers Park," "GatorBill from Champaign", "Denver Dave", "Stonecutter from the Northwest Side," "Wild Bill" RIP (known for his hoarse, out of breath voice), the always hilarious "Rex Kwon Do," "Mr. Mouth", "Quad Cities Pat", "Quit Playin'","Bittersweet Jeff" from the South Side, "Dark Twain","Mike in Milwaukee","Tom from 'Hangover Park'" "Northside Fro Dog", and an impersonator of The Simpsons villain "Mr. Burns."
- The station's relationship with many well-known Chicago celebrities, sports or otherwise. Some of these include former pitcher and current Chicago White Sox announcer Steve Stone, and former Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén; some, such as Stone and Pro Football Weekly publisher and former Chicago Bears announcer Hub Arkush, are paid expert analysts. Ozzie Guillén Jr. conducts a Spanish language baseball program.
- The station's various "radio remotes." Radio shows are done from various locations in the Chicago area, ranging from restaurants and local bars and pubs, to Chicago sports teams' training camps, mainly the Chicago Bears. At one point, former morning radio personality Mike North even did a series of remote shows from the backyards of various SCORE listeners. On every Friday the Boers and Bernstein show hosts the Bud Light "Who Needs Two" tavern tour.
- Various "signature segments." These range from "Who Ya' Crappin'," based on Mike Ditka's response to a question posed by Terry Boers in a recorded interview, to Mully and Hanley's "Reporters' Notebook", "Bum Of The Week" and "And For That You Suck!" with Les Grobstein. Another popular segment is Laurence Holmes "Hater Wednesday". The signature and other segments are now available via the "Pod Spot" menu of The Score's website.
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.
This schedule is frequently interrupted by DePaul basketball, White Sox baseball, Northern Illinois University football and select basketball games, Westwood One's coverage of NFL football, and pre/postgame shows. It was announced on Wednesday April 17th on Boers and Bernstein that Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball will be broadcast starting in the 2013 season and Illinois Fighting Illini Football will be added after the 2014 season, the station will also end it's deal with Northern Illinois. Twice an hour there are minute long "Score Board Updates" by reporters that discuss game results and highlighted stories of the day. Many producers are frequent on air contributors and fill in when other hosts have days off. Other reporters and contributors are Dave Wischnowsky, Zach Zaidman, David Schuster, Nick Shepkowski, Herb Lawrence and Jay Zawaski.
Weekends constitute of local shows by Mike Esposito, Steve Rosenbloom and Mark Grote, Ben Finfer, Wayne Randazzo, 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 Games and NFL Playoffs games through Dial Global.
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