WACX
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| City | Leesburg, Florida |
| Channels | |
| Branding | SuperChannel Orlando |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Associated Christian Television System, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | March 6, 1982 |
Former call signs | WIYE (1982–1988) |
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| TBN(1990s–2006) | |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 60018 |
| ERP | 49.2 kW |
| HAAT | 510.5 m (1,675 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 28°35′12.6″N81°4′57.5″W/ 28.586833°N 81.082639°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | superchannel |
WACX(channel 55) is areligiousindependent television stationlicensed toLeesburg, Florida,United States, serving theOrlandoarea. Locally owned by the Bowers family and their ministry, Associated Christian Television System, the station maintains studios on Central Parkway inAltamonte Springs,and its transmitter is located nearBithlo, Florida.
WACX operates on acommerciallicense,even though it, like most religious stations, is supported through donations from viewers. Its schedule consists primarily of national and local religious programming.[2]
The station's owner is not the same entity as either American Christian Television Services, owner ofWLMAinLima, Ohio,or the defunctcablenetwork theAmerican Christian Television System.
History
[edit]WACX first signed on the air on March 6, 1982, as WIYE, operating onanalogchannel 55. However, it has roots in a local Christian cable channel begun by Claud and Freeda Bowers in 1977.
Channel 55's signal originally did not make it too far out ofLake County.However, the station had grown enough that by 1987 it was able to move to a new transmitter capable of 5 millionwattsof power, boosting its coverage area to the entireCentral Floridaarea. It became WACX in 1988, and began branding itself as "SuperChannel 55" because at the time it was the only station in the area airing at the maximum power allowed for a UHF station. (The WIYE calls now reside ata low-powered CBS affiliateinParkersburg, West Virginia.)
From the 1990s through September 2006, WACX was affiliated withTBN,regularly airing select programs from the network; this affiliation ceased after TBN acquired WTGL-TV (channel 52) inCocoaand changed its call sign toWHLV-TV.Since then, the station has regularly featured programming fromThe Inspiration Network(INSP) and periodically fromGod TV.
At one point, WACX controlled the "SuperChannel TBN" service on theSky Angelreligioussatellitesystem, but this was replaced with the national TBN feed in 2006.
Technical information
[edit]Subchannels
[edit]The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 55.1 | 480i | 16:9 | WACX-D1 | Main WACX programming |
| 55.2 | WACX-D2 | Aliento Vision | ||
| 55.3 | WACX-D3 | GEB America | ||
| 55.4 | WACX-D4 | SonLife | ||
| 55.5 | WACX-D5 | QVC Over the Air | ||
| 55.6 | WACX-D6 | Believer's Voice of Victory Network | ||
| 55.7 | WACX-D7 | LibreVisión | ||
| 55.8 | WACX-D8 | CBN News | ||
| 55.9 | WACX-D9 | QVC2 | ||
| 55.10 | WACX-D10 | J.U.M.P. Global Network (JUMP Ministries) | ||
| 55.11 | WACX-D11 | Mega TV Orlando |
Analog-to-digital conversion
[edit]WACX shut down its analog signal, overUHFchannel 55, in March 2006. The station's digital signal continued to be broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 40,[4]usingvirtual channel55.
Translator
[edit]WACX presently operates adigitaltranslator stationwhich rebroadcasts its signal into theGainesville–Ocalaarea. In addition, programming from WACX's main channel is carried on adigital subchannelofWJGV-CD(channel 48) inPalatka.[5]
| City of license | Callsign | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter coordinates |
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| Alachua | WACX-LD | 32 | 15 kW | 160 m (525 ft) | 168091 | 29°37′47.″N82°34′24″W/ 29.62972°N 82.57333°W |
Former translators
[edit]Previously, WACX operated a network of analogtranslatorswhich rebroadcast its signal into other parts ofFlorida:
| Area served | City of license | Callsign | Channel | Notes |
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| Tallahassee | Madison | W03AO | 3 | License canceled on September 24, 2013[6] |
| Tallahassee | WACX-LP | 9 | Sold to Restoration Place, Inc. in August 2011 (now WWRP-LP).[7] | |
| Tampa Bay | Lakeland | WLWA-LP | 14 | Wentdarkon June 15, 2006, after losing its transmitter site;[8]license canceled on April 24, 2009.[9] |
| Gainesville | Alachua | W69AY | 69 | Replaced with digital translator W40CQ-D (now WACX-LD);[10]license canceled on March 27, 2009.[11] |
Majesty Building
[edit]In 2001, Claud Bowers, the general manager of WACX, began construction of the Majesty Building, an 18-story office building in Altamonte Springs. However, no work was done on the building, which has been dubbed "TheI-4Eyesore "by many locals in the area, for over two decades.[12]Construction largely resumed in 2018.
References
[edit]- ^"Facility Technical Data for WACX".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^"WACX-DT 55.1 Leesburg/Orlando Program Schedule".Superchannel.com.Associated Christian Television System. November 28, 2018.
- ^RabbitEars TV Query for WACX
- ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).RetrievedMarch 24,2012.
- ^"Gospel Vision TV".Pentecostal Revival Association.RetrievedMarch 9,2021.
- ^"Facility Details « Licensing and Management System Admin « FCC".enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov.RetrievedMarch 9,2021.
- ^FCC Public Notice Report #534: "Media Bureau Call Sign Actions", August 31, 2011.ArchivedOctober 30, 2011, at theWayback Machine
- ^"Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.June 26, 2006.RetrievedMay 25,2009.
- ^Hashemzadeh, Hossein (April 24, 2009)."Re: WLWA-LP, Lakeland, FL"(PDF).CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedMay 25,2009.
- ^"Licensing and Management System".enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov.RetrievedMarch 9,2021.
- ^"Facility Details « Licensing and Management System Admin « FCC".enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov.RetrievedMarch 9,2021.
- ^"The 'I-4 Eyesore' has been under construction since 2001. It's showing glimmers of life".Tampa Bay Times.July 26, 2018.RetrievedMay 11,2019.