WACY-TV
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Appleton/Green Bay, Wisconsin United States |
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| City | Appleton, Wisconsin |
| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 32 () |
| Subchannels | 32.1 MyNetworkTV 32.2 Grit 32.3 Escape |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV (2006–present) |
| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting, LLC) |
| First air date | March 7, 1984 |
| Call letters' meaning |
ACe TV (reflecting the station's former owner) |
| Sister station(s) |
WGBA-TV, WTMJ-TV, WTMJ, WKTI |
| Former callsigns | WBOU (1983) WXGZ-TV (1984–1995) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 32 (UHF, 1984–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: Independent (1984–1986, 1994–1995) Fox (1986–1992) Dark (1992–1994) UPN (1995–2006) Secondary: The WB (1995–1999) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 367 m |
| Facility ID | 361 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°21′30″N 87°58′48″W / 44.35833°N 87.98000°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | WACY.com |
WACY-TV, virtual channel 32 (UHF digital channel 27), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station serving Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, that is licensed to Appleton. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, as part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate WGBA-TV (channel 26). The two stations share studios on North Road along Airport Drive/WIS 172 in the Green Bay suburb of Ashwaubenon, WACY's transmitter is located in the Shirley section of Glenmore, Wisconsin. The station is also available on Charter Spectrum channel 83 (channel 15 on Charter's legacy Fond du Lac system), CenturyLink channel 13, on either channel 8 or channel 9 in most outlying areas of the market, and channel 32 on AT&T U-verse, and in high definition on Spectrum channel 1013 and AT&T U-verse channel 1032.
The station first signed on the air on March 7, 1984 as WXGZ-TV, and was the first television station licensed to and based out of Appleton; it was originally owned by Appleton Midwestern Television. The Appleton Post-Crescent reported on January 31 that the station began operations by testing its signal, although it formally began programming on March 7. WXGZ originally opeated as an independent station during its first three years, showing off-network sitcoms and other syndicated programming. On October 6, 1986, under the "Super 32" moniker, WXGZ became a charter affiliate of the Fox network. The station continued to essentially program itself under the regulations of an independent station as the network's only program at the time was the late night talk program The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers; primetime programming followed in 1987. After joining Fox, WXGZ became the first station in the Green Bay/Appleton television market to begin broadcasting in stereo.
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