WACP

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WACP
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Atlantic City, New Jersey/
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States
City of license Atlantic City, New Jersey
Branding WACP 4
Channels Digital: 4 (VHF)
Virtual: 4 (PSIP)
Subchannels (see table)
Affiliations Independent
Owner Western Pacific Broadcast LLC[1]
First air date June 18, 2012[2]
Call letters' meaning Atlantic
City
Philadelphia
Sister station(s) WMDE[3]
Transmitter power 10 kW
Height 256 m (840 ft)
Facility ID 189358
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Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website WACP.com

WACP, VHF digital channel 4, is an independent television station serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and southern New Jersey that is licensed to Atlantic City. The station is owned by Western Pacific Broadcast LLC. WACP maintains studios located in Millville,[4] and its transmitter is located in Waterford Works. A sale of the station is pending post spectrum auction.

Its programming features a mix of infomercials, home shopping shows and children's programming following E/I[5] requirements outlined by the Federal Communications Commission.

History

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. On December 17, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission proposed the allotment of two VHF allocations: one on channel 4 to Atlantic City, New Jersey and another on channel 5 to Seaford, Delaware.[6][7][8] On January 13, 2011, the FCC announced a license auction for February 15 of that year for the two VHF channel allocations.[9] On February 26, 2011, Richland Towers-created Western Pacific Broadcast LLC won the federal auction to acquire the two full-power VHF station licenses.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14] On June 23, 2011, an application was filed into the FCC to assign the "WACP" callsign to the station license.[15] The construction permit to build the WACP transmitter was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on February 13, 2012.[16]

On April 18, 2012, Richland Towers Management Waterford purchased an existing transmitter tower in Waterford Works, New Jersey (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).[17][18][19][20][21][22][23] 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.[24]

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, has been negated with the 2009 digital transition).[25][26][27][28]

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[29]
4.1 1080i 16:9 WACP-D1 Main WACP programming

References

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  27. ↑ New Philly V Set To Launch Next Week, TVNewsCheck, October 19, 2012.
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  29. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WACP

External links

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