Quest (American TV network)
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Type | Digital multicast television network |
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Country | United States |
Broadcast area | Nationwide via OTA digital television |
Affiliates | List of affiliates |
Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia |
Programming | |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Tegna Inc. |
Key people |
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History | |
Founded | November 7, 2017 |
Launched | January 29, 2018 |
Founder | Lonnie Cooper |
Links | |
Website | www |
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[edit]
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[edit]
Quest's program schedule[7] consists of a mix of programs that originally aired on 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:
- Auction Kings
- Aussie Gold Hunters
- Black Gold
- Chasing Monsters
- Combat Dealers
- Doomsday Preppers
- Dual Survival
- Factory Made
- Fish Tank Kings
- Food Factory USA
- Full Throttle Saloon
- Giant Lobster Hunters
- Hardcore Pawn
- Hunting Hitler
- Lizard Lick Towing
- Machines: How They Work
- Made by Destruction
- Mayday: Air Disaster
- Mega Builders
- Mega Shippers
- MonsterQuest
- Most Daring
- Seconds from Disaster
- Shipping Wars
- South Beach Tow
- Storage Hunters
- Storage Wars Canada
- Storm Chasers
- Swords
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Yukon Gold
Affiliates[edit]
As of December 2018[update], 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 TelevisaUnivision USA 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]
City of license/Market | Station | Virtual channel[8] |
Physical channel |
Primary affiliation (on main channel) |
Owner (Management Company) |
Date of affiliation | Notes† |
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Alabama: Huntsville | WZDX | 54.5 | 18 | Fox | Tegna | Coming soon | |
Alabama: Mobile | WPMI | 15.2 | 15 | NBC | Deerfield Media(operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group) | Fall 2022 | |
Alabama: Montgomery | WDSF-LD | 19.1 | 36 | MyNetworkTV | HC2 Holdings | ||
Arizona: Mesa (Phoenix) | KPNX | 12.4 | 18 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Arizona: Tucson | KMSB | 11.4 | 25 | Fox | Tegna (Gray Television) |
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Arkansas: Little Rock | KTHV | 11.4 | 12 | CBS | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Arkansas: Paragould (Memphis, TN) | KPMF-LD | 26.1 | 24 | MyNetworkTV | HC2 Holdings | ||
California: Bakersfield | KUVI-DT | 45.1 | 26 | Quest | TelevisaUnivision USA | January 29, 2018 | Initially on 45.4 from 2018 to 2023 |
California: Ontario (Los Angeles) | KFTR-DT | 46.5 | 29 | UniMás (O&O) | |||
California: Sacramento | KXTV | 10.5 | 10 | ABC | Tegna | Initially on 10.4 from 2018 to 2022, then later on 10.6 from 2022 to 2023 | |
California: San Diego | KFMB-TV | 8.5 | 8 | CBS | Tegna | February 28, 2020 | |
California: Palo Alto (San Francisco) | KTLN-TV | 68.5 | 22 | Heroes & Icons | Weigel Broadcasting | ||
Colorado: Denver | KUSA-TV | 9.5 | 9 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
District of Columbia: Washington, D. C. | WUSA-TV | 9.3 | 9 | CBS | Tegna | ||
Connecticut: Waterbury/Hartford/New Haven | WCCT-TV | 20.4 | 33 | The CW | Tegna | ||
Florida: Hollywood (Miami) | WAMI-DT | 69.5 | 24 | UniMás (O&O) | TelevisaUnivision USA | January 29, 2018 | |
Florida: Orange Park (Jacksonville) | WJXX | 25.3 | 10 | ABC | Tegna | ||
Florida: Orlando | WVEN-TV | 43.5 | 22 | UniMás (O&O) | TelevisaUnivision USA | ||
Florida: Tampa/St. Petersburg | WTSP | 10.4 | 10 | CBS | Tegna | ||
Florida: West Palm Beach | WFLX | 29.6 | 35 | Fox | Gray Television | ||
Georgia: Atlanta | WXIA-TV | 11.4 | 10 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | Flagship station |
Idaho: Boise | KTVB | 7.4 | 7 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Illinois: Aurora (Chicago) | WXFT | 60.3 | 44 | UniMás (O&O) | TelevisaUnivision USA | ||
Illinois: Moline | WQAD-TV | 8.5 | 31 | ABC | Tegna | 2020 | |
Illinois: Rockford | WREX | 13.6 | 13 | NBC | Allen Media Broadcasting | ||
Indiana: Elkhart (South Bend) | WSJV | 28.5 | 30 | Heroes & Icons | Gray Television | May 1, 2019 | |
Indiana: Fort Wayne | WFWC-CD | 45.8 | 16 | Cozi TV | HC2 Holdings | ||
Indiana: Indianapolis | WTHR | 13.5 | 13 | NBC | Tegna | December 2019 | Moved from WSDI-LD 30.1 |
Iowa: Des Moines | KCWI-TV | 23.4 | 23 | The CW | Tegna | February 2018 | |
Iowa: Cedar Rapids | KGAN | 2.3 | 29 | CBS | Sinclair | October 2022 | Moved from KWKB 20.6 |
Kentucky: Louisville | WHAS-TV | 11.3 | 11 | ABC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Kentucky: Lexington | WTVQ-DT | 36.6 | 27 | Morris Multimedia | early 2018[when?] | ||
Louisiana: Lafayette | KXKW-LD | 32.5 | 30 | Newsnet | Delta Media Corp/Wilderness Comm | November 21, 2022 | |
Louisiana: Slidell/New Orleans | WUPL | 54.2 | 17 | MyNetworkTV | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | Replaced a standard-definition simulcast of WUPL's main feed |
Louisiana: Shreveport | KSHV-TV | 45.4 | 16 | Nexstar Media Group | February 2018 | ||
Louisiana: Monroe | KMCT-TV | 39.6 | 22 | Religious | WGGS-TV | October 2018 | |
Maine: Bangor | WLBZ | 2.3 | 2 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Maine: Portland | WCSH | 6.4 | 31 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Michigan: Grand Rapids | WZZM | 13.4 | 13 | ABC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Michigan: Saginaw, Michigan | WFFC-LD | 17.3 | 17 | Azteca América | HC2 Holdings | Late 2019 | |
Michigan: Detroit | WADL | 38.3 | 27 | MyNetworkTV | Adell Broadcasting | ||
Minnesota: Duluth | KDLH | 3.6 | 33 | CW | Gray Television | ||
Minnesota: Minneapolis/St. Paul | KARE | 11.4 | 31 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Minnesota: Rochester | KXLT | 47.5 | 26 | Fox | Gray Television | ||
Missouri: Kansas City | KCTV | 5.4 | 24 | CBS | Gray Television | ||
Missouri: Springfield | KYTV | 3.6 | NBC | ||||
Missouri: St. Louis | KSDK | 5.4 | 35 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Nevada: Las Vegas | KGNG-LD | 15.5 | KGNG | King Kong Broadcasting | Replaced St. Rose Channel | ||
Nevada: Reno | KOLO-TV | 8.5 | ABC/CW | Gray Television | |||
New Mexico: Albuquerque/Santa Fe | KLUZ-TV | 14.2 | 22 | Univision | TelevisaUnivision USA (Entravision Communications) |
January 29, 2018 | |
New Jersey: Newton (New York City) | WMBC-TV | 63.2 | 18 | Independent | Mountain Broadcasting Corporation | September 2018 | |
New York: Buffalo | WGRZ | 2.4 | 33 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
North Carolina: Charlotte | WCNC-TV | 36.4 | 24 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
North Carolina: Fayetteville | WUVC-DT | 40.6 | 22 | Univision | TelevisaUnivision USA | February 3, 2018 | |
North Carolina: Greensboro/ Winston-Salem/High Point |
WFMY-TV | 2.4 | 35 | CBS | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
North Carolina: Willmington | WWAY-TV | 3.4 | 24 | ABC | Morris Multimedia | Coming Soon | |
North Dakota: Bismarck | KFYR-TV | 5.5 | 22 | NBC | Gray Television | 2020 | |
North Dakota: Dickinson | KQCD-TV | 7.5 | 7 | NBC | Gray Television | 2020 | |
North Dakota: Fargo | KRDK | 4.9 | 24 | Cozi TV | Major Market Broadcasting | 2020 | |
North Dakota: Minot | KMOT | 10.5 | 10 | NBC | Gray Television | 2020 | |
Ohio: Cincinnati | WBQC-LD | 25.12 | 28 | Telemundo | Block Communications | January 23, 2018[11] | Replaced WOTH-CD 20.3 Buzzr channel |
Ohio: Cleveland | WKYC | 3.4 | 19 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Ohio: Columbus | WBNS-TV | 10.5 | 21 | CBS | November 15, 2019 | ||
Ohio: Toledo | WTOL-TV | 11.4 | 11 | CBS | November 15, 2019 | ||
Oklahoma: Oklahoma City | KOCO-TV | 5.7 | 7 | ABC | Hearst Television | ||
Oklahoma: Tulsa | KGEB | 53.5 | 12 | GEB America | Oral Roberts University | ||
Oregon: Klamath Falls | KOTI | 2.3 | 13 | NBC | California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc. | Coming soon | |
Medford | KOBI | 5.3 | 5 | ||||
Portland | KGW | 8.4 | 26 | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | ||
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia | WFPA-CD | 28.3 | 35 | UniMás (O&O) | TelevisaUnivision USA | January 29, 2018 | |
Pennsylvania: Greensburg/Pittsburgh | WPCB-TV | 40.4 | 28 | Cornerstone Television | Cornerstone Television | ||
South Carolina: Columbia | WLTX | 19.4 | 15 | CBS | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
South Carolina: Greenville | WGGS | 16.6 | 16 | Religious Independent | Carolina Christian Broadcasting | - | |
South Carolina: Myrtle Beach/Florence | WMBF-TV | 32.6 | 32 | NBC | Gray Television | 2020 | |
Tennessee: Chattanooga | WDEF-TV | 12.5 | 12 | CBS | Morris Multimedia | January 29, 2018 | |
Tennessee: Knoxville | WBIR-TV | 10.4 | 10 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Tennessee: Memphis | WATN-TV | 24.6 | 25 | ABC | September 2021 | ||
Tennessee: Nashville | WUXP-TV | 30.2 | 21 | MyNetworkTV | Sinclair Broadcast Group | October 1, 2022 | |
Texas: Amarillo | KAUO-LD | 15.7 | 14 | The Country Network | DTV America | March 1, 2018 | |
Texas: Austin | KVUE | 24.4 | 33 | ABC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Texas: Bryan/College Station | KAGS-LD | 23.3 | 23 | NBC | |||
Texas: Conroe/Houston | KTBU | 55.1 | 33 | Quest | March 27, 2020 | Was formerly on KHOU 11.4 from 2018 to 2021 | |
Texas: Dallas/Fort Worth | WFAA | 8.4 | 8 | ABC | January 29, 2018 | ||
Texas: El Paso | KTFN | 65.3 | 20 | UniMás | Entravision Communications | August 2018 | |
Texas: Odessa/Midland | KWES-TV | 9.4 | 9 | NBC | Tegna | ||
Texas: San Angelo | KIDY | 6.6 | 19 | Fox | Coming soon | ||
Texas: San Antonio | KENS | 5.4 | 29 | CBS | January 29, 2018 | ||
Texas: Temple/Waco | KCEN-TV | 6.3 | 9 | NBC | |||
Texas: Wolfforth/Lubbock | KLCW-TV | 22.4 | 23 | The CW | Gray Television | ||
Vermont: Burlington (Plattsburgh, New York) | WVNY | 22.4 | 7 | ABC | Mission Broadcasting (Nexstar Media Group) |
February 2018 | |
Virginia: Hampton/Norfolk/ Virginia Beach |
WVEC | 13.4 | 11 | ABC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Washington: Seattle | KING-TV | 5.3 | 25 | NBC | Tegna | January 29, 2018 | |
Washington: Spokane | KSKN | 22.3 | 36 | The CW | |||
Wisconsin: Fond du Lac/Milwaukee | WIWN | 68.3 | 5 | Cozi TV | CNZ Communications | January 29, 2018 | |
Wisconsin: Green Bay/Appleton | WBAY-TV | 2.7 | 23 | ABC | Gray Television | TBA | |
Wisconsin: Madison/Middleton | WZCK-LD | 8.4 | 36 | Cozi TV | HC2 Holdings | ||
Wisconsin: Wausau/Rhinelander | WSAW-TV | 7.5 | 7 | CBS | Gray Television | March 11, 2020 |
References[edit]
- ^ "Our Leadership Team". Quest. Tegna Inc./Cooper Media. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
- ^ "TEGNA, Cooper Media to Launch Quest, a New Multicast Adventure and Exploration Network" (Press release). Tegna Inc. November 7, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2018 – via Business Wire.
- ^ Jon Lafayette (November 7, 2017). "Tegna Launching Quest, New Multicast Net, With Cooper". Broadcasting & Cable. NewBay Media. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
- ^ Dade Hayes (November 7, 2017). "Tegna And Cooper Media Plan Adventure-Themed Multicast Network Quest". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
- ^ Mark K. Miller (November 7, 2017). "Tegna, Cooper Media to Launch Quest Diginet". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
- ^ Hayes, Dade (May 6, 2019). "Tegna Acquires Multicast Networks Quest And Justice Network In $91M Deal".
- ^ "All Shows". Quest. Tegna Inc./Cooper Media. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ^ a b "Stations for Network - Quest". RabbitEars. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
- ^ Jon Lafayette (December 20, 2017). "Univision Stations to Carry New Quest Diginet". Broadcasting & Cable. NewBay Media. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
- ^ Richard Middleton (December 21, 2017). "Univision helps Cooper with Quest". C21Media. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
- ^ "Goodbye". Facebook. January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.