Heroes & Icons (H&I) is an American digital multicast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting. Usually carried on the digital subchannels of its affiliated television station in most markets, the network airs classic television series from the 1950s through the 2000s, with a focus on action/adventure, westerns, crime dramas, sci-fi, and superhero programming.

H&I operates from Weigel Broadcasting's headquarters on North Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois, and is essentially an offshoot of MeTV – the general classic TV digital networks also owned by Weigel.

History Heroes & Icons was soft-launched with limited advanced promotion on September 28, 2014, as a diginet of Weigel-owned stations WWME-CD (channel 23.2) and WCIU-TV (channel 26.4) in Chicago, and WMLW-TV (channel 49.3) in Milwaukee. Heroes & Icons was created at the request of the affiliates of Weigel's existing networks, to increase their programming options.

The network also launched in the South Bend, Indiana market, along with the major cable providers in the Chicago and Milwaukee markets (including Comcast Xfinity, RCN and Time Warner Cable) using existing carriage. Weigel opted to soft launch H&I in order to fine-tune its schedule, along with adding additional programming to the fledgling network. With the network having settled on a more stabilized schedule, Weigel moved the Heroes & Icons affiliation in Milwaukee to the third subchannel of CBS affiliate WDJT-TV (channel 58) on March 5, 2015, with This TV – which previously occupied the 58.3 space – moving to WMLW-DT3 in its place. Fox Television Stations expanded its relationship with Weigel beyond Movies!, adding it to eleven of their stations in the fourth quarter of 2015. A list of 2019 Nielsen ratings published by Variety indicated that Heroes & Icons averaged 196,000 viewers in prime time, up 18% from the 2018 average.

Programming H&I's program schedule features a mix of police procedurals, westerns, science fiction, superhero and action/adventure-themed programs. The network also carries a three-hour block of children's programming on Sunday mornings to fulfill FCC mandated E/I obligations.

Since 2016, a prominent staple in H&I's lineup is the airing of five live action classic Star Trek series called "All Star Trek" (The Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise) Sunday through Friday evenings from 8pm-1am ET.

Weekdays feature a morning western block. From noon-5 p.m. ET, a binge block branded as "The Day Shift" is featured, airing a different action/drama show every weekday. A three-hour block of CSI airs early evenings from 5-8 p.m. ET, with the All Star Trek block featured in primetime through late evenings.

Weekends feature a morning DC Comics-based superhero block, featuring Adventures of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman,, while a war/military themed block of programs airs Saturday evenings.

Affiliates , Heroes & Icons has current affiliation agreements with television stations in 63 media markets encompassing 33 states, covering 69.21% of the United States. The network is carried on the digital subchannels of television stations in most of its markets (with current exceptions including St. George, Utah O&O KCSG, which has widespread cable and satellite coverage in the Salt Lake City market and throughout Utah. The network is also carried on cable television providers through their digital tiers at the discretion of the affiliate's parent station in certain markets, and in 2020, Heroes & Icons is available nationwide on DISH Network channel 293.

In South Bend, Indiana, where Weigel Broadcasting owns three television stations (ABC affiliate WBND-LD, CW affiliate WCWW-LD and MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYS-LD), the network is instead carried by former Fox affiliate WSJV through an agreement with that station's owner Gray Television (it took over the main signal on October 1, 2016, as that station was under consideration to sell its spectrum in that year's spectrum auction, though it ultimately remained on the air). The network added additional stations by early December 2014, which in addition to WSJV, included KCSG in the Salt Lake City market (a station Weigel eventually purchased in 2017) and a digital subchannel of Des Moines CBS affiliate KCCI.

On September 18, 2015, Weigel signed an affiliation agreement with Fox Television Stations to carry the network on subchannels of the group's Fox and MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated stations in eleven markets, including New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., beginning in the fourth quarter of 2015. Once all of the stations involved in the agreement affiliated with the network, H&I will expand its coverage to 52% of all U.S. households and availability in eight of the 10 largest Nielsen markets.

In October 2020, Heroes & Icons was made available on Sling TV. On April 19, 2022, Heroes & Icons began airing on the Frndly TV live streaming service. On August 9, 2022, Heroes & Icons became available on Philo.

On December 28, 2023, Heroes & Icons was made available nationwide also on DirecTV.DirecTV Press Release, Directv.com

On June 26, 2025, Fubo announced a multi-year agreement with Weigel Broadcasting to distribute Heroes & Icons, along with several other Weigel channels.

+ Current affiliates for Heroes & Icons Media market State/Dist./Terr. Station Channel Anniston–Gadsden–Birmingham Alabama WGWW 40.1 Huntsville–Decatur WAAY-TV 31.5 Mobile WFBD 48.3 Montgomery WALE-LD 17.6 Troy WIYC 43.3 Tuscaloosa WSES 33.1 Anchorage Alaska KTUU-TV 2.2 KYES-LD 2.12 Juneau–Douglas KATH-LD 2.2 Phoenix Arizona KSAZ-TV 10.3 Kingman KMOH-TV 6.2 Tucson KTTU-TV 18.5 Camden Arkansas KMYA-DT 49.3 Fayetteville KFLU-LD 20.6 Sheridan–Little Rock KMYA-LD 49.3 Bakersfield California KNXT-LD 53.4 Chico–Redding KNVN 24.6 Los Angeles KCOP-TV 13.4 KAZA-TV 54.5 Fresno KAIL 7.3 Monterey KMBY-LD 27.2 Oroville K31ND-D 24.8 Palo Alto–San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose KTLN-TV 68.1 Stockton–Sacramento–Modesto KQCA 58.2 Colorado Springs–Pueblo Colorado KRDO-TV 13.7 Denver KTVD 20.2 Glenwood Springs KREG-TV 3.2 Grand Junction KLML 20.2 KLML-LD Hartford–New Haven Connecticut WHCT-LD 35.2 Washington District of Columbia WDCA 20.3 Fort Myers Florida WBBH-TV 20.2 Jacksonville WFOX-TV 30.3 Miami–Fort Lauderdale WPLG 10.3 Ocala–Gainesville WKMG-LD 65.3 Orlando WRBW Panama City WECP-LD 21.4 Tallahassee WTLH 49.1 Tampa–St. Petersburg WTVT 13.4 West Palm Beach–Boca Raton–Fort Pierce WFLX 29.4 Atlanta Georgia WGTA 32.2 WUPA 69.7 Augusta WAGT-CD 26.5 Baxley–Savannah WSCG 34.7 Columbus WXTX 54.5 Cordele–Albany WSST-TV 55.3 WSST-LD Macon WPGA-TV 58.2 Hilo Hawaii KHVO 4.5 Honolulu KITV Wailuku KMAU Boise Idaho KRID-LD 22.3 Idaho Falls KBAX-LD 27.2 Pocatello–Idaho Falls KVUI 31.3 Chicago Illinois WWME-CD 23.2 WCIU-TV 26.4 Harrisburg–Marion–Carbondale WSIL-TV 3.2 Rockford WFBN-LD 35.1 Evansville Indiana WZDS-LD 5.1 South Bend WMYS-LD 69.1 Indianapolis WJSJ-CD 51.4 Cedar Rapids Iowa KWWL 7.2 Davenport–Bettendorf KWQC-TV 6.4 Des Moines KCCI 8.3 Ensign–Dodge City–Garden City Kansas KBSD-DT 6.3 Goodland–Colby KBSL-DT 10.3 Hays–Great Bend KBSH-DT 7.3 Hutchinson–Wichita KWCH-DT 12.3 Topeka WIBW-TV 13.3 Beattyvile–Lexington Kentucky WLJC-TV 65.7 Bowling Green WBKO 13.6 Hazard WYMT-TV 57.2 Louisville WBNA 21.6 Alexandria Louisiana KBCA 41.1 Lafayette KDCG-CD 22.1 KLWB 50.3 Monroe KMLU 11.2 New Orleans WUPL 54.3 Bangor–Dedham Maine WBGR-LD 18.2 Portland WPXT 51.2 Baltimore Maryland WMJF-CD 39.6 Salisbury WGDV-LD 32.3 Boston Massachusetts WSBK-TV 38.2 Detroit Michigan WDIV-TV 4.2 Flint–Saginaw–Bay City–Midland WJRT-TV 12.5 Kalamazoo–Battle Creek–Grand Rapids WLLA 64.3 Marquette WZMQ 19.3 Onodaga–Lansing–Jackson WILX-TV 10.3 Chisholm–Hibbing Minnesota KRII 11.3 Duluth KDLH 3.7 Minneapolis–Saint Paul KSTP-TV 5.7 Rochester KXLT-TV 47.3 Meridian Mississippi WOOK-LD 15.2 Vicksburg–Jackson WLOO 35.2 Joplin Missouri KOAM-TV 7.4 Kansas City KSMO-TV 62.2 Poplar Bluff KPOB-TV 15.2 St. Louis KNLC 24.3 Grand Island–Hastings–Kearney Nebraska KGIN 11.4 Lincoln KOLN 10.4 Omaha WOWT 6.3 Ely Nevada KKEL 27.4 Las Vegas KHSV 21.2 Albuquerque–Santa Fe New Mexico KOB 4.2 Farmington KOBF 12.2 Roswell–Carlsbad KOBR 8.2 Albany New York WNYA 51.4 Buffalo WBBZ-TV 67.2 New York City WWOR-TV 9.4 Oneida WTKO-CD 13.3 Rochester WHEC-TV 10.5 Syracuse WTVU-CD 22.3 Utica WWDG-CD 12.3 Charlotte North Carolina WCCB 18.5 Raleigh–Durham–Fayetteville WRAZ 50.4 Smithfield WARZ-LD 21.3 Washington–Greenville–New Bern–Jacksonville WITN-TV 7.5 Wilmington WILM-LD 10.3 WILT-LD 24.3 Bismarck–Mandan North Dakota KNDB 24.1 Minot KNDM 26.1 Fargo KXJB-LD 30.3 Cincinnati Ohio WXIX-TV 19.2 Cleveland WBNX-TV 55.4 Columbus WCSN-LD 32.2 Oklahoma City Oklahoma KUOK-CD 36.5 Tulsa KMYT-TV 41.4 Woodward KUOK 35.5 Astoria–Portland Oregon KPWT-LD 3.1 Eugene KEZI 9.4 Medford KFBI-LD 48.1 Erie Pennsylvania WSEE-TV 35.4 Harrisburg WCZS-LD 35.5 Johnstown WTOO-CD 50.1 Philadelphia WDPN-TV 2.4 Pittsburgh WPKD-TV 19.2 Añasco Puerto Rico W34FK-D 33.1 Charleston South Carolina WGWG 4.5 Columbia WOLO-TV 25.5 Greenville–Spartanburg WDKT-LD 31.5 Myrtle Beach–Florence WFXB 43.5 Rapid City South Dakota KHME 23.2 KQME 5.2 Jackson Tennessee WNBJ-LD 39.3 Kingsport–Johnson City–Bristol WAPK-CD 36.4 WKIN-CD WKPZ-CD Knoxville WBXX-TV 20.3 Memphis WHBQ-TV 13.2 Nashville WJFB 44.2 Amarillo Texas KEYU 31.2 Austin KVAT-LD 17.4 Beaumont KUIL-LD 12.13 Belton–Killeen–Temple–Waco KNCT 46.5 Corpus Christi KQSY-LD 30.2 Dallas–Fort Worth KDFW 4.3 Houston KPRC-TV 2.3 Lubbock KLBB-LD 48.2 Odessa KOSA-TV 7.4 Snyder KABI-LD 42.1 San Antonio KSAT-TV 12.4 Tyler KDKJ-LD 27.5 Victoria KVCT 19.4 Cedar City–St. George Utah KCSG 8.4 Ogden–Salt Lake City KCSG-LD Burlington Vermont WCAX-TV 3.3 Norfolk–Virginia Beach Virginia WVEC 13.7 Roanoke–Lynchburg WDBJ 7.3 Bellingham Washington KVOS-TV 12.8 Kennewick–Pasco–Richland KVEW 42.3 Seattle KFFV 44.3 Spokane KXLY-TV 4.3 Yakima KAPP 35.3 Charleston–Huntington West Virginia WQCW 30.2 Weston–Clarksburg–Fairmont WDTV 5.3 Eau Claire Wisconsin WECX-LD 14.2 Green Bay WBAY-TV 2.4 Madison WIFS 57.8 Milwaukee WMLW-TV 49.3 Wausau WZAW-LD 33.4 Casper Wyoming KCWY-DT 13.4 KCBZ-LD K16JI-D

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