Picture a person on a large riding mower cutting hay near a broadcast tower. That mower then inadvertently clips a guy wire holding up a very large broadcast tower, dragging the wire and causing enough tension to bring down the entire 360-foot tower. That’s what happened to St. Joseph, Missouri’s KFEQ-AM (680). Station GM Gary Exline tells Radio-Info, “It was tower 4 of a four-tower radio array for KFEQ, originally built in the 1940’s, out on a big field. Fortunately nobody got hurt, but this will affect our signal strength at night.” Exline says the station, one of four owned by Eagle Communications in the market, sent an emergency request to the FCC to operate at night at reduced power. “Daytime power and direction were not affected,” says Exline, who adds the other three towers in the array are okay.