WACP


WACP is a religious television station licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, serving southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia television market as an owned-and-operated station of Tri-State Christian Television. The station's studios are located in Millville, and its transmitter is located in Waterford Works.
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History

On December 17, 2009, the FCC proposed the allotment of two VHF allocations: one on channel 4 to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and another on channel 5 to Seaford, Delaware. On January 13, 2011, the FCC announced a license auction for February 15 of that year for the two VHF channel allocations. On February 26, 2011, Richland Towers–created Western Pacific Broadcast LLC won the federal auction to acquire the two full-power VHF station licenses. On May 4, 2011, the FCC granted Western Pacific Broadcast a construction permit to build a digital transmitter for the new station, using the channel 4 license. On June 23, 2011, an application was filed into the FCC to assign the "WACP" callsign to the station license. The construction permit to build the WACP transmitter was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on February 13, 2012.
On April 18, 2012, Richland Towers Management Waterford purchased an existing transmitter tower in Waterford Works from Univision Communications, who acquired the site on May 15, 2002, as part of that company's acquisition of USA Broadcasting's television stations, including Philadelphia's WUVP-TV. On or around June 6, 2012, WACP began testing its broadcast signal by running a tower camera feed from CBS affiliate WIAT in Birmingham, Alabama, along with a WACP station ID on the upper right portion of the screen; this was later replaced by a full-screen station ID that began to be shown on-air on June 24, 2012. The FCC granted the WACP station license on July 9, 2012.
On October 23, 2012, Comcast Xfinity added WACP on cable channel 4 in much of its Philadelphia service area, displacing ABC owned-and-operated station WPVI-TV to Comcast channel 6 in certain areas.
WACP's programming featured a mix of infomercials, home shopping shows and children's programming following E/I requirements outlined by the Federal Communications Commission. The station carried local newscasts that were produced by Millville-based SNJ Today from 2015 until 2019. The newscasts were maintained largely by the former staff of WMGM-TV's news department. WMGM and WACP simulcast the newscasts until the former announced its sale to Univision in 2017.
On July 1, 2019, WACP began to simulcast News 12 New Jersey from 6 to 9 a.m. on weekdays.
On August 31, 2021, Marion, Illinois–based Tri-State Christian Television announced that it would purchase WACP for $10 million. The sale was completed on November 1.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
4.1720p16:9WACP HDTCT
4.2480i16:9SBNSonLife
4.3480i16:9HSTVHealing Streams TV
4.5480i16:9JewelryJewelry TV
4.6480i16:9The FamThe Family Channel
4.7480i16:9GDTInfomercials
4.8480i16:9DIYADiya TV
4.9480i16:9ONTV4UOnTV4U
4.10480i4:3BizTVBiz TV