WACX

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. (The WIYE calls now reside at a low-power CBS affiliate in Parkersburg, West Virginia.)

From the 1990s through September 2006, WACX was affiliated with TBN, regularly airing select programs from the network (including serving as the source feed for TBN on the Sky Angel religious satellite system as Superchannel TBN); this affiliation ceased after TBN acquired WTGL-TV (channel 52) in Cocoa and changed its call sign to WHLV-TV. Since then, the station has regularly featured programming from The Inspiration Network (INSP) and periodically from God TV.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

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 (channel 48) in Palatka.

Former translators

Previously, WACX operated a network of translators which rebroadcast its signal into other parts of Florida:

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.