After 63 years, historic WZZM broadcast tower comes down

  • Crews are dismantling WZZM 13’s original transmitter tower near Grant, a structure that has been in place since the station’s sign-on in 1962.

Crews have begun dismantling WZZM 13’s original transmitter tower near Grant. It’s a structure that dates back to the station’s sign-on in 1962.

For more than six decades, the tower helped deliver 13 ON YOUR SIDE’s signal across West Michigan, transmitting broadcasts from a site roughly six miles southwest of Grant.

The tower was built when WZZM first took to the air as an ABC affiliate on Nov. 1, 1962…

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