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In the first week of July, a number of "phantom" entries appeared in the Freeview electronic programme guide, providing listings of individual programmes or whole days schedules for Quest. However, these shows have not been broadcast, and the date of the supposed "launch" is still expected to be in the fourth quarter of 2009 |
In the first week of July, a number of "phantom" entries appeared in the Freeview electronic programme guide, providing listings of individual programmes or whole days schedules for Quest. However, these shows have not been broadcast, and the date of the supposed "launch" is still expected to be in the fourth quarter of 2009. |
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Revision as of 23:08, 5 July 2009
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Discovery Networks UK |
Quest is an upcoming TV channel in the United Kingdom. Quest is expected to provide factual, lifestyle and entertainment programmes from the archives of Discovery Communications and other imported material. Discovery announced in October 2008, that they would launch a channel on Freeview in early 2009 but not using the Discovery name. Quest is expected to be available on Freeview from launch.[2] It is currently unknown if the channel will launch on other platforms at a later date. [3][4]
A placeholder appeared on Freeview channel 47 on 5 January 2009.[5] A placeholder also appeared on Tiscali TV Channel 109 on 14 May 2009.
The channel was planned to launch on 14 May 2009, broadcasting from 10.00am to 00:00 daily, but after broadcasting a promo loop on the planned launch morning, at 10am the channel returned to displaying a "Coming soon" message.[6][7]
The Quest website displays 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."
It was later revealed that the launch of Quest had been delayed until the fourth quarter of 2009. [8]
In the first week of July, a number of "phantom" entries appeared in the Freeview electronic programme guide, providing listings of individual programmes or whole days schedules for Quest. However, these shows have not been broadcast, and the date of the supposed "launch" is still expected to be in the fourth quarter of 2009.
References
- ^ http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=questtv.co.uk&WHOIS+Submit.x=0&WHOIS+Submit.y=0
- ^ "Implementation for Quest". Retrieved 2009-05-05.
- ^ "Discovery gets Freeview 'Quest' licence". Retrieved 2008-10-29.
- ^ "Discovery to launch Freeview channel". Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ^ "Placeholder for Quest appears on Freeview". Retrieved 2009-01-06.
- ^ "Discovery's Quest to launch in May". Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- ^ "Podcast coverage of Quest failed launch". Retrieved 2009-05-14.
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"Discovery Networks delays launch of Quest on Freeview". Media Week. 2009-05-27.
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