W44CL

W44CL (physical and display channel 44) is the HSN2 affiliated station for the Roanoke/Lynchburg marked licensed to Roanoke, VA. It is owned by Ventana Television, making it the second Owned & Operated (O&O) station in the market (the other being WPXR). The station transmits from Tinker Mountain with an effective radiated power of 15,000 watts. It's transmitter is 697 meters above mean sea level or 18 meters above ground level.

Not much information can be found on the station. What we do know is that the station traces it's roots to at least a construction permit filed on December 8th, 1989 by applicant Penny C. Wilmoth of New York. The station got it's license to cover in 1992 and either signed on as W56CP (presumably on analog channel 56) or W62CZ (presumably on analog channel 62) on September 8th, 1998. The station moved to analog channel 34 on October 30th, 2001 and became W34CU. It moved yet again, this time to analog channel 44 with it's current W44CL callsign on April 24th, 2006. The station flash-cut to digital on channel 44 sometime between December 14th, 2009 and August 15th, 2011.

The station was previously the HSN affiliate for the market until WPXR added a sixth subchannel.