Weigel Launches Cop Show Net Heroes & Icons

Weigel Broadcasting is at it again on the multicast front, launching the cop show network Heroes & Icons (H&I). Shows include Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, The Commish and Renegade.

The network soft launched earlier this fall. Stations on board for H&I include KCSG Salt Lake City and KCCI Des Moines; the latter has a MyNetworkTV-H&I hybrid on its dot-three channel. H&I also is on the air on Weigel stations in Chicago, Milwaukee and South Bend.

Weigel Broadcasting vice chair Neal Sabin was not available for comment at presstime.

Weigel has been a leader in the digi-net space, launching This TV, Me-TV and Movies! Last year, it split from This TV to concentrate on Movies!, a partnership with Fox. Tribune took over programming and operations at This TV.

Weigel and CBS Television Stations are partnering on the classic programming net Decades, which launches next year.

H&I's early morning lineup includes news content from TouchVision.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.