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Quest is an American
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owned by
Tegna Inc. Tegna Inc. (stylized in all caps as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. It was created on June 29, 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publ ...
The network specializes in travel, historical, science, and adventure-focused
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and
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aimed at adults between the ages of 25 and 54. The network, which broadcasts in
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, is available in several large and mid-sized markets via digital subchannel affiliations with
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s. Stations have the option of placing their Quest-affiliated subchannels on
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providers serving their market (via existing carriage agreements for local broadcast stations) to provide additional local coverage.


History

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. Tegna Inc. (stylized in all caps as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. It was created on June 29, 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publ ...
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. The network was officially launched on January 29, 2018, at 6:00 p.m.
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with an episode ("Air Ambush") of the 2006–08
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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.


Programming

Quest's program schedule consists of a mix of programs that originally aired on A&E,
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,
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, Smithsonian, and
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cable networks, as well as those which premiered in 3D (aired on Quest in traditional 2D) from the now-defunct DirecTV channel 3net: * '' Bering Sea Gold'' * ''Brojects * '' Canadian Pickers'' * '' Classic Cartoons'' * ''Combat Dealers'' * '' DragonflyTV Sports'' (E/I) * '' Fast N' Loud'' * ''
Food Factory USA ''Food Factory'' is a Canadian television series produced by Cineflix airing on the Food Network (Canada), Food Network (Canada), and in United States on National Geographic (American TV channel), National Geographic, Quest (American TV network) ...
'' * '' Full Throttle Saloon'' * '' Hardcore Pawn'' * '' Hardcore Pawn: Chicago'' * '' Lizard Lick Towing'' * '' The Liquidator'' * '' Most Daring'' * '' South Beach Tow'' * '' Speeders'' * '' Storage Hunters'' * '' Storage Wars: Northern Treasures'' * '' Survivorman'' * '' Swords: Life on the Line''


Former programming

* '' Auction Kings'' * '' Aussie Gold Hunters'' * '' Black Gold'' * ''Chasing Monsters'' * '' Doomsday Preppers'' * '' Dual Survival'' * ''Factory Made'' * ''Fish Tank Kings'' * ''Giant Lobster Hunters'' * ''
Hunting Hitler ''Hunting Hitler'' is a History Channel television series based on the fringe theory that Adolf Hitler escaped from Berlin at the end of World War II in Europe, ostensibly by faking his death instead of committing suicide in Berlin in ...
'' * ''Machines: How They Work'' * ''Made by Destruction'' * '' Mayday: Air Disaster'' * '' Mega Builders'' * ''Mega Shippers'' * '' Modern Marvels'' * '' MonsterQuest'' * ''My Floating Home'' * ''
Seconds from Disaster ''Seconds from Disaster'' is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th and early 21st centuries. Each episode aims to explain a single incident by anal ...
'' * '' Shipping Wars'' * ''
Storm Chasers Storm chaser or stormchaser may refer to: Weather * Storm chasing, the pursuit of any severe weather condition * Storm chaser, colloquial term referring to scammers who enter areas recently afflicted by disasters offering false or shoddy servi ...
'' * ''The Ride That Got Away'' * ''What Could Possibly Go Wrong?'' * '' Yukon Gold''


Affiliates

, Quest has affiliation agreements with television stations in 67
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s (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. 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
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broadcaster TelevisaUnivision USA to carry its programming on five of its
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and
UniMás UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. ...
owned-and-operated television stations as well as one station affiliated with Justice Network.


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Quest (American TV network) 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 netw ...
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