Quest Red
| Quest Red | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 15 March 2017 |
| Owned by | Discovery Networks Northern Europe |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sister channel(s) |
Animal Planet Discovery Channel Discovery History Discovery Home & Health Discovery Science Discovery Shed Discovery Turbo DMAX Investigation Discovery Quest TLC |
| Website | www.questtv.co.uk/quest-red |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 38 |
| Satellite | |
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Sky (Great Britain only) |
Channel 162 Channel 233 (+1) |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 215 |
Quest Red is a digital television channel in the United Kingdom broadcasting factual, lifestyle, crime and reality programming aimed at a female audience. The channel, operated by Discovery Networks Northern Europe, will run as a sibling to Discovery's established Freeview channel Quest, launched in 2009.
In mid-February 2017, shortly after the completion of an eleventh-hour carriage deal with Sky to retain a presence on the satellite platform for its current and future channels, Discovery Communications head David Zaslav told a corporate conference call that a second Freeview channel, to sit alongside Quest, would launch during 2017.
The following day, more details of the channel were confirmed, including its name and branding (which will include a red version of the Quest 'Q' channel symbol), content (some of which will be shared with sibling channels such as ID and TLC), and launch date of 15 March.
The station will be available as a free-to-air channel on the Freeview platform (and, by extension, to users of the BT and TalkTalk YouView platforms), and on the subscription satellite and cable platforms operated by Sky and Virgin Media UK. On Sky, a one-hour timeshifted variant of Quest Red will also be provided.
Advance listings information indicated that the first programme screened on the channel would be an episode of Homes Under the Hammer. Ahead of broadcast, this was changed: Extreme Couponing, which had initially been due to follow HUtH in the schedule, was brought forward to the 10am hour, with HUtH then following from 11am.
A placeholder for Quest Red was made available on the Virgin Media platform early in the morning of 15 March, ahead of the channel's launch; the new channel was added to the Sky programme guide at approximately 1045 on launch day, and to Freeview from 1200. A number of other changes to services on the Freeview platform were made simultaneously with the addition of Quest Red, including a reduction in the broadcast hours of Quest +1, which also moved down the programme guide to release LCN 38 to Quest Red.
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