Quest (British TV channel)
Quest is a British and Irish free-to-air television channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It provides factual, lifestyle and entertainment programmes and other imported material, as well as films and sports coverage. It is operated by Warner Bros. Discovery.
This article is about the British television channel. For the American television channel, see Quest (American TV network).Country
United Kingdom, Ireland
Quest +1
30 September 2009
DMAX +1.5 (Quest +1)
Channel 12
Channel 70 (+1)
Watch live (UK only)
Watch live (UK only)
Watch live (+1) (UK only)
Watch live (Ireland only)
History[edit]
Launch[edit]
In October 2008, Discovery announced that they would launch a channel on Freeview in early 2009, but without using the "Discovery" name. A placeholder appeared on Freeview channel 47 on 5 January 2009 and Tiscali TV channel 109 on 14 May 2009.[1] Although the channel planned to launch on 14 May 2009 at 10 am, after broadcasting a promo loop on the planned launch morning, at 10 am the channel returned to displaying a "Coming soon" message.[2][3]
The Quest website displayed a message reading: "Regrettably we have made the decision to postpone the launch of Quest. Due to a number of commercial factors we have had to make this difficult decision. We did not make this decision lightly and we are working towards launching Quest in the near future. We would like to apologise wholeheartedly to any of you that have been looking forward to this launch."
In August 2009, Discovery Networks announced that it planned to launch the channel on 30 September 2009.[4] At the same time the channel moved to channel 38.[5] Quest launched on Sky, on 1 October 2009, after acquiring an EPG slot from Information TV 2. Quest +1 launched on Sky, replacing DMAX +1.5 on 2 November 2009.[6]
Quest launched on Virgin Media on 25 March 2010 on channel 179.
Quest moved to channel 12 on Freeview, a space previously occupied by Dave, due to its owner Discovery, Inc. acquiring Good Food, Home and Really from the UKTV network (which owns Dave) as part of a deal with BBC Studios.
Quest HD has been available on Swisscom TV (IPTV) in Switzerland since November 2019
In November 2022, Quest Red +1 closed on Freeview and Quest moved from the COM4/SDN multiplex to the COM6/ArqB multiplex.
Quest +1 on Freeview[edit]
At the beginning of March 2014, Quest +1 appeared on Freeview channel 57. On 27 May 2014, Quest moved on Freeview to channel 37 and Quest +1 moved to channel 38. On 15 March 2017 it moved to channel 92 due to the launch of sister channel Quest Red, and later channels 76 and 69 following closures. Quest +1 and Quest Red +1 received changes in 2019 as Quest Red +1 moved to 72 while Quest +1 increased broadcast hours to 24 hour rather than 7pm to 7am.
Quest logo used from 30 September 2009 - 14 April 2014
Quest logo used from 15 April 2014 – present
2014 version without checkpoint
