WACX


WACX, branded SuperChannel Orlando, is a religious independent television station licensed to Leesburg, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area. Locally owned by SuperChannel Worship Ministries, Inc., the station maintains studios on W. Central Parkway in Altamonte Springs, and its transmitter is located near Bithlo, Florida.
WACX operates on a commercial license, even though it, like most religious stations, is supported through donations from viewers. Its schedule consists primarily of national and local religious programming.
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History

WACX first signed on the air on March 6, 1982, as WIYE, operating on analog channel 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 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 in the area airing at the maximum power allowed for a UHF station.
From the 1990s through September 2006, WACX was affiliated with TBN, regularly airing select programs from the network ; this affiliation ceased after TBN acquired WTGL-TV in Cocoa, and changed its call sign to WHLV-TV. Since then, the station has regularly featured programming from The Inspiration Network and periodically from God TV.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
55.1480i16:9WACX-D1Main WACX programming
55.2480i16:9WACX-D2Aliento Vision
55.3480i16:9WACX-D3GEB America
55.4480i16:9WACX-D4SonLife
55.5480i16:9WACX-D5QVC2
55.6480i16:9WACX-D6Victory Channel
55.7480i16:9WACX-D7SuperChannel Classics
55.8480i16:9WACX-D8CBN News
55.9480i16:9WACX-D9One America Plus
55.10480i16:9WACXD10J.U.M.P. Global Network
55.11480i16:9WACXD11Aliento Vision
55.12480i16:9WACXD12Greater Love TV
55.13480i16:9WACXD13NRB TV
55.14480i16:9WACXD14One America Plus
55.15480i16:9WACXD15QVC2

Analog-to-digital conversion

WACX shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 55, in March 2006. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 40, using virtual channel 55.

Translator

Programming from WACX's main channel is carried on a digital subchannel of WJGV-CD in Palatka.

Former translators

Previously, WACX operated a network of translators which rebroadcast its signal into other parts of Florida:
Area servedCity of licenseCallsignChannelNotes
TallahasseeMadisonW03AO3License canceled on September 24, 2013
TallahasseeTallahasseeWACX-LP9Sold to Restoration Place, Inc. in August 2011.
Tampa BayLakelandWLWA-LP14Went dark on June 15, 2006, after losing its transmitter site; license canceled on April 24, 2009.
GainesvilleAlachuaW69AY69Replaced with digital translator W40CQ-D ; license canceled on March 27, 2009.
GainesvilleAlachuaWACX-LD32Sold to Watchmen Broadcasting Productions International in 2022; no longer relays WACX.

Majesty Building

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 "The I-4 Eyesore" by many locals in the area, for over two decades. Construction largely resumed in 2018, but the building remains incomplete as of 2025.