WACX
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Leesburg/Orlando, Florida United States |
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| Branding | SuperChannel WACX-TV |
| Slogan | In God We Trust For a Better Life |
| Channels |
Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 55 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 55.1 Christian Independent 55.2 God TV 55.3 WACX encores 55.4 SonLife |
| Translators | WWRP-LP 9 Tallahassee W40CQ-D Alachua/Gainesville |
| Owner | Associated Christian Television System, Inc. (Bowers family) |
| First air date | March 6, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning | Associated Christian (referring to owner) X = Christ |
| Former callsigns | WIYE (1982–1988) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 55 (UHF, 1982–2006) |
| Former affiliations | TBN (1990s–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 493.6 m |
| Facility ID | 60018 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 28°35′12.6″N 81°4′57.5″W / 28.586833°N 81.082639°WCoordinates: 28°35′12.6″N 81°4′57.5″W / 28.586833°N 81.082639°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wacxtv.com |
WACX is a Christian television station serving Orlando, Florida, licensed to nearby Leesburg with studios in Altamonte Springs. It is locally owned by the Bowers family and their company, Associated Christian Television System. It broadcasts on UHF channel 40, virtual channel 55. The station's schedule consists primarily of locally produced religious programming. Currently, WACX is operating as an independent station.
WACX is technically a commercial station, even though it, as with most religious stations, is viewer supported.
The station's owner, Associated Christian Television System, is not the same entity as either American Christian Television Services, owners of WTLW in Lima, Ohio, or the defunct television network the American Christian Television System.
WACX first signed on the air on March 6, 1982 as WIYE, operating on analog channel 55 and owned by Claud and Freeda Bowers. However, it has roots in a local Christian cable station begun by the Bowers and several other Lake County residents in 1977.
Channel 55's signal originally didn't make it too far out of Lake County. However, the station had grown enough that by 1987 it was able to move to a new transmitter capable of 5 million watts of power, boosting its coverage area to the entire Central Florida area. It became WACX in 1988, and began branding itself as "SuperChannel 55" because at the time it was the only station airing at the maximum power allowed for a UHF station.
From the 1990s through September 2006, WACX was affiliated with TBN, regularly airing broadcast segments from the network; this affiliation ceased after TBN acquired its own station in the market. Since then, the station has regularly featured program segments from The Inspiration Network (INSP) and periodically from God TV.
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