WSCR-AM (820), the daytime sports-talk station known as the Score, is moving up the dial and expanding to 24-hour service.
CBS Radio announced Wednesday that it has agreed to sell WSCR's frequency to John Douglas, founder of Douglas Broadcasting, based in Palo Alto, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Pending federal government approval and completion of the transaction in early 1997, CBS will move the Score's call letters and format to the 24-hour signal of WJJD-AM (1160). The deal will mean curtains for WJJD after more than 70 years, along with its current format of pop-adult standards music and the syndicated talk shows of G. Gordon Liddy and Tom Leykis. The sale was prompted by the impending merger of Westinghouse Electric Co. …
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