Quest

[denis567]

What has happened to the new Freeview channel - Quest Channel 47. It was due to start at 10.00am on 14th May, but it has still not started.

[pond50]

have you re-tuned your box?

[TCL-MUMPING]

From Wiki

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

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."

[WhiteBear]

they over spent their budget!

[squarebear]

What was supposed to be on the channel anyway?

[vehelpfulguy]

More here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_(TV_channel )

My guess is they thought they would not get enough money from adverts to continue with it.

It was going to show old programs from the Discovery stable.

[vehelpfulguy]

Yet more here

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/multichanne l/2009/05/discovery_delays_quest.html

Says they were going to rent out space to others on the channel.

Maybe nobody else wanted to rent space, making it unlikely to be a commercial success.