Quest Red

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Quest Red
History
Launched15 March 2017
Links
Websitediscoveryplus.com/gb/channel/quest-red
Availability
Terrestrial
FreeviewChannel 40
Streaming media
Discovery+Watch live

Quest Red is a British free-to-air

Quest
, launched in 2009.

History

Former Quest Red logo used until 2020

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.[1]

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

TLC), and launch date of 15 March.[2]

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 and Republic of Ireland.

At launch, the channel was, like Quest, encrypted on satellite and thus not available on Freesat. Quest and Quest Red removed their encryption and began broadcasting free-to-air over satellite in June 2017, and were added to the Freesat guide early in July.

A full one-hour timeshifted variant of Quest Red was launched on the Sky platform in tandem with the launch of the principal channel. From 14 June 2017, Quest Red +1 was made available to Freeview users for three hours a day in the early morning, taking over the capacity vacated by the earlier relocation of Quest +1 to a different, longer slot.[3] On 28 November 2017, Quest Red +1 launched on Freesat.

Unlike Sky & Freesat, Quest Red +1 is not on Virgin Media. It used to be available on Freeview until November 2022, when it was removed to make way for Quest moving to the COM6 multiplex.

At launch, Quest Red wasn't available to

ITV Digital Channels Ltd, who previously had ITVBe on that slot apart from regions where STV
is on channel 103.

From 8 January 2024, Quest Red will show US crime dramas from

Warner Bros Television
.

Launch

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 10 am, with HUtH following at 11 am.

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 10:45 am on launch day in Great Britain only, and to Freeview from noon. 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.

Programming

See also

  • Quest

References

  1. ^ "Second Discovery Freeview channel in the works".
  2. ^ "Discovery UK launches Quest Red".
  3. ^ "Freeview Mini-Reshuffle: Quest Red +1 and more Red Button streams".
  4. ^ "discovery+ | Stream 55,000+ Real-Life TV Episodes" – via www.discoveryplus.com.
  5. ^ "@the_nolans" on Twitter

External links