WACP

WACP
CityAtlantic City, New Jersey
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
June 18, 2012 (11 years ago) (2012-06-18)
Independent (2012–2021)
Call sign meaning
Atlantic City and Philadelphia
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID189358
ERP34 kW
HAAT258.4 m (847.8 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°44′04″N 74°50′27″W / 39.73444°N 74.84083°W / 39.73444; -74.84083
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.tct.tv

WACP (channel 4) 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 (TCT). The station's studios are located in Millville, and its transmitter is located in Waterford Works.

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 (located at 1813 Arrowhead Drive) 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 (channel 65). On or around June 6, 2012, WACP began testing its broadcast signal by running a tower camera feed from Birmingham, Alabama CBS affiliate WIAT, 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 correspondence with the station's virtual channel) in certain areas (though the reasoning for WPVI maintaining the cable channel 4 location, to prevent co-channel interference with the station's signal, was no longer an issue after improvements to the cable system in the 1990s).

Former logo for WACP as an independent station.

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 (FCC). 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 digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WACP
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
4.1 1080i 16:9 WACP-HD TCT
4.2 480i SBN Sonlife Broadcasting Network
4.3 4:3 Heartla [Blank]
4.4 ShopLC Shop LC
4.5 Jewelry Jewelry Television
4.6 The Fam The Family Channel
4.7 16:9 ACE TV Ace TV
4.8 4:3 Service [Blank]

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