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.

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 U&Dave) as part of a deal with BBC Studios.

On 21 July 2014, Quest announced that they would be broadcasting live football in the form of the 2014 Schalke 04 Cup - a pre-season tournament featuring the likes of Newcastle United F.C.

[11] In late 2016, Quest broadcast live coverage and highlights of the new Home Series International Snooker Series, Quest broadcast afternoon sessions live of the English, Scottish and Northern Irish Opens with evening coverage exclusively on Eurosport and highlights.

The coverage is presented by Andy Goldstein or Colin Murray alongside Jimmy White, Neal Foulds & Ronnie O'Sullivan with commentary by the usual Eurosport commentators Joe Johnson, Neal Foulds, Dave Hendon & Philip Studd.

[15] When the first show was broadcast on 4 August 2018, viewers experienced frequent breakup of picture and the screen aspect was reduced to the obsolete 4:3 ratio.

Numerous complaints were made and Digital Spy ran a feature on the impact of the "technical difficulties".

Quest claimed that "some" viewers experienced problems but the Digital Spy investigation strongly suggests that everyone was impacted.

On 16 July 2015, Quest moved from 167 to 144 on Sky, switching places with sister channel DMAX.