Quest (known as Tech Quest Network until 2018) is an American digital multicast television network that is owned by Cooper Media. 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.
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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 sister network Justice Network) and Tegna, Inc. The network was given an expected launch date set for 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.
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.
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Programming
Quest's program schedule consists of a mix of programs that originally aired on the Discovery, History, Smithsonian, and truTV cable networks, as well as programs from the now-defunct DirecTV channel 3net (downconverted to flat 2D):
- 1,000 Days of the Planet
- African Wild
- American Loggers
- Appalachian Outlaws
- Auction Kings
- Battle 360°
- 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
- Storm Chasers
- Tougher In Alaska
- Unsolved History
- WWI: The First Modern War
Affiliates
As of January 17, 2018, Quest has pending affiliation agreements with television stations in 36 media markets (including 24 of the top 30) encompassing 24 states, covering 50% of all households of at least one television set in the United States.
When its launch was announced, the network reached a charter affiliation agreement with network co-partner Tegna, which initially plans 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.
List of affiliates
References
External links
- Official website
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