Heroes & Icons

Heroes & Icons
Type Digital broadcast television network
Country United States
Availability Nationwide 9.59%[1] (available on OTA digital television in select markets)
Slogan "All eyes on H&I"
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois
Owner Weigel Broadcasting
Key people
 Neal Sabin
(Vice Chairman, Weigel Broadcasting)
Launch date
 September 29, 2014
Picture format
 480i (SDTV)
Affiliates List of affiliates

Heroes & Icons (H&I) is a United States television network airing on digital terrestrial television stations and primarily airs classic television series from the 1950s through the 1990s, with a focus on dramatic and action-oriented programming. The network is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, and launched on September 29, 2014.

History

Heroes & Icons was soft launched on September 28, 2014 on Weigel owned stations WWME-CD Channel 23.2 and WCIU-TV Channel 26.4 in Chicago and in Milwaukee on WMLW-TV Channel 49.3. H&I was started at the request of Weigel's existing networks' affiliates to increase their programming options, along with filling in holes coming up in Weigel's subchannel lineups as their existing affiliation agreements for the former co-owned This TV (now controlled by Tribune Media) began to expire; an additional factor was the move of sister network Movies! in the Milwaukee market from WMLW to Hearst Television's WISN-DT2.

The network also launched in the South Bend, Indiana market, along with the major cable systems in the Chicago and Milwaukee markets using existing carriage.[2] Weigel went with a soft launch to tinker around with the network's schedule, along with adding additional programming to the network.[3] The networks added additional stations by early December 2014 with stations signing on one of Weigel's South Bend stations, KCSG Salt Lake City and KCCI in Des Moines.[4] With the network's schedule stabilized, Weigel moved the network in Milwaukee to WDJT-TV's third subchannel on March 5, 2015, with that signal's former network, This moving to WMLW-DT3 in its place.[5]

Current programming

H&I also broadcasts news from TouchVision in the morning.[4]

Affiliates

City of license/market Station[1] Virtual
channel		 Owner Affiliation date Notes
Chicago WWME-CD 23.2 Weigel Broadcasting September 29, 2014[2] Analog station
WCIU-TV 26.4 Full-power simulcast
Evansville WTSN-CD 20.1 Evansville Low Power Partnership
Elkhart (South Bend)[2] WSJV 28.2 Quincy Newspapers
Weigel Broadcasting December 2014[4] former; affiliation move to Quincy's WSJV
Des Moines KCCI 8.3 Hearst Television December 2014 also a MyNetworkTV affiliate[4]
Poland Spring (Portland) WMTW 8.2 Hearst Television March, 2015
Minneapolis–St. Paul KSTP-TV 5.7 Hubbard Broadcasting
Rochester KTTC-TV 10.3 Quincy Newspapers March 2015[9]
Las Vegas KTNV-TV 13.3 E. W. Scripps Company
Nashua (Boston, Massachusetts) WYCN-CD 13.2 OTA Broadcasting
Albuquerque KUPT-LD 16.1 Ramar Communications February 2015
Valley City/Fargo KRDK-TV 4.1 Major Market Broadcasting April 2015
Allentown (Philadelphia) WFMZ-TV 69.3 Maranatha Broadcasting Company
Cedar City (Salt Lake City) KCSG 14.1 Southwest Media, LLC
Racine (Milwaukee) WDJT-TV 58.3 Weigel Broadcasting September 29, 2014[2][10]
Sayner W42DH-D 42.1
Wausau WSAW-TV 7.3 Gray Television Also carried on translator W42DH-D Sayner

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Stations for Network - Heroes & Icons". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Channick, Robert (September 29, 2014). "Weigel Broadcasting launches cop show digital TV network". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ "News & Notes: Felicia Middlebrooks; WOJO; WVIX/WVIV; WMVP/WSCR; James VanOsdol; Weigel Broadcasting; WGN-TV; More". Chicagoland Radio & Media. September 30, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Malone, Michael (December 2, 2014). "Weigel Launches Cop Show Net Heroes & Icons". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ Foran, Chris (4 March 2015). "Weigel flips channels for This TV, Heroes & Icons formats". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 6.11 6.12 "'Heroes and Icons': KCSG-TV launches new, exclusive, family friendly network". St. George News. October 3, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Darrow, Chuck (January 15, 2015). "Nostalgic programming all the rage on the tube these days". Philly News. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 "New KCSG programming coming in the new year Jan. 12". KCSG.com. December 29, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  9. ↑ "New local broadcast channel coming to KTTC 10.3". KTTC. February 12, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  10. ↑ Foran, Chris (4 March 2015). "Weigel flips channels for This TV, Heroes & Icons formats". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 5 March 2015.