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heero_yuy 01-02-2017 13:58
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
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Originally Posted by nashville (Post 35883481)
Never heard of the Quest Station
It's currently on Freeview ch37. Mostly re-runs of Discovery and BBC2 documentarys plus robot wars.

RichardCoulter 31-05-2017 02:00
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
Last March, in response to a question on Twitter as to whether Quest would be coming to Freesat, Discovery replied "we're working on it".

As of today, Quest has started dual illuminating​ on the same transponder as Quest Red.

Could be a standard transponder move or something more significant...

nodrogd 31-05-2017 10:29
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35901132)
Last March, in response to a question on Twitter as to whether Quest would be coming to Freesat, Discovery replied "we're working on it".

As of today, Quest has started dual illuminating​ on the same transponder as Quest Red.

Could be a standard transponder move or something more significant...
Could just be to shunt bitrates around.
Eurosport showed Superbike World Championships exclusively on Quest at the weekend, so it is still being used as a taster for Eurosport.
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/...hown-on-quest/

Chris 31-05-2017 10:38
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35901132)
Last March, in response to a question on Twitter as to whether Quest would be coming to Freesat, Discovery replied "we're working on it".

As of today, Quest has started dual illuminating​ on the same transponder as Quest Red.

Could be a standard transponder move or something more significant...
Unless the new broadcast is via a spot beam I think this is unlikely to be a prelude to joining Freesat.

RichardCoulter 27-06-2017 03:18
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
It is a spot beam Chris.

Freesat have now made some technical preparations to their EPG data to add Quest to 167 and Quest Red to 169.

The timeshift +1 channels won't be available on Freesat, but the gap suggests that they intend to add them in the future.

Looks to me like Discovery have managed to get a similar deal as UKTV after their carriage dispute to unshackle their free channels from Sky ie the parent channel is allowed to go onto Freesat, but the +1's remain encrypted for now.

Incidentally, 166 is vacant and wasn't used for Quest, which it is assumed will be used for another channel addition...

RichardCoulter 27-06-2017 21:06
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
Quest and Quest Red are now broadcasting in the clear for those who wish to manually tune them in.

As Freesat normally add channels on a Tuesday, at a guess I'd say that that they will be added to Freesat on 4/7/17.

dbateman2k5 26-07-2017 01:03
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
Quest is on channel 167
Quest Red is on channel 169

RichardCoulter 12-10-2017 21:55
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
Technical changes suggest that Quest +1 and Quest Red +1 will be joining Freesat :)

nashville 13-10-2017 13:49
Re: Could Quest be coming to Freesat?
 
Cheers Richard


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