Quest (American TV network)

Quest

Type	Digital multicast television network
Country	United States
Availability	Nationwide via OTA digital television
Founded	November 7, 2017; 3 years ago (2017-11-07) by Lonnie Cooper
Slogan	Let's Explore
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia
Parent	Tegna Inc.
Key people	Brian Weiss (President/General Manager) John Ford (Head of Programming) Ned Simon (Head of Production and Network Operations)[1]
Launch date	January 29, 2018; 3 years ago (2018-01-29)
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Affiliates	List of affiliates
Official website	www.questtv.com

Quest is an American digital multicast television network owned by Tegna Inc. The network specializes in travel, historical, science, and adventure-focused documentary and reality series aimed at adults between the ages of 25 and 54.

The network, which broadcasts in 480i standard definition, is available in several large and mid-sized markets via digital subchannel affiliations with broadcast television stations. Stations have the option of placing their Quest-affiliated subchannels on cable television providers serving their market (via existing carriage agreements for local broadcast stations) to provide additional local coverage.

History[]

The formation of Quest was announced on November 7, 2017, as a partnership between Cooper Media (a company formed at that same time to serve as the owner of Quest and its sister network, Justice Network) and Tegna Inc. The network was given an expected launch date of January 2018. Tegna tapped several of its 46 owned or operated television stations to serve as the network's charter affiliates, in exchange for maintaining a minority ownership stake in the network.^[2][3][4][5]

The network was officially launched on January 29, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time with an episode ("Air Ambush") of the 2006–08 History series Dogfights as the network's inaugural program.

In May 2019, it was announced that Tegna would be acquiring both the Justice Network and Quest.^[6]

Programming[]

Quest's program schedule^[7] consists of a mix of programs that originally aired on the A&E Discovery, History, Smithsonian, and truTV cable networks, as well as those which premiered in 3D (aired on Quest in traditional 2D) from the now-defunct DirecTV channel 3net:

• 1,000 Days of the Planet
• African Wild
• American Loggers
• Appalachian Outlaws
• Auction Kings
• Backroad Bounty
• Battle 360°
• Brojects
• Building the Brand
• Command Decisions
• Dangerous Flights
• The Detonators
• Dogfights
• Dual Survival
• Flying Wild Alaska
• IRT: Deadliest Roads
• Life After People
• Live Fire
• The Lost Evidence
• Massive Moves
• Mayday: Air Disaster
• Modern Marvels
• Most Daring
• Mystery Quest
• Sci-Trek
• Shipping Wars
• Storm Chasers
• Tougher In Alaska
• Unsolved History
• WWI: The First Modern War
• Yukon Gold

Affiliates[]

As of December 2018, Quest has affiliation agreements with television stations in 67 media markets (including 24 of the top 30) encompassing 35 states, covering 60.81% of all households with at least one television set in the United States.^[8]

When its launch was announced, the network reached a charter affiliation agreement with network co-partner Tegna, which initially planned to debut the network on 22 of its television stations. On December 20, 2017, the network signed a multi-station agreement with Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications to carry its programming on five of its Univision and UniMás owned-and-operated television stations as well as one station affiliated with Justice Network.^[9][10]

List of affiliates[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website