Towers Fall and Westport's New Voice

WMMM had its share of tower troubles. On Friday, February 15, 1974 the station's west AM transmitting tower had been leveled as a Southern New England Telephone company truck snagged a guy wire (SNET's facility is located right next to WMMM's transmitter site and this guy wire terminated in their parking lot). Just over three years later on Sunday, March 27, 1977 vandals had severed a guy wire supporting the other AM tower, bringing it crashing to the ground.

During both instances the station was forced to broadcast at reduced power until a replacement tower could be installed. Since radio towers are a low demand item, it usually took six months for the manufacturer to deliver a replacement.