About Quest
QUEST
Quest is a 24/7 broadcast television network that entertains and informs its viewers with exhilarating adventure programming featuring nature's greatest dangers, history's greatest mysteries and man's greatest achievements.
Meet the Executive Team
John Kiser serves as Programming Director for TEGNA's multicast networks. John has dedicated his career to television and programming. Since his start in 2014, John has contributed to the successful launch of Justice Network (now True Crime Network), Quest and Twist networks. During his tenure, John has spearheaded day-to-day efforts in licensing, scheduling and analytics of three networks. John has negotiated and built libraries for all three networks and True Crime Network's OTT service, totaling 7,000+ cumulative hours.
In John’s spare time, he fundraises for Shepherd Center, which is one of the nation’s premiere catastrophic care hospitals specializing in spinal injuries, acquired brain injuries, and diseases of the nervous system. John lives in the Atlanta, GA area with his wife Marissa and his two dogs Janie and Hennessey.
As Director of Operations and Production, Shera wears many hats for the multicast team, making sure affiliate channels run smoothly, shows make it to air, and promos are timely. She’s excited to develop and produce new series and forge fresh partnerships with producers and production companies.
Shera has spent her entire career in factual entertainment, for which she has a lifelong passion. Joining Animal Planet in its early days, she spent many years focused on natural history programming. This included a year living in New Zealand producing Most Extreme for NHNZ, and later going on to run development for NHNZ in their Washington, DC office. Development often felt like “the best job in the world,” because it allowed her to meet and embed with most interesting people in the world! Later, Shera joined WebMD as Senior Producer, where finding good stories was the key to shining a light on health conditions that affect extraordinary, everyday people.
In her spare time, Shera can be found kayaking, hiking, and throwing some wonky pottery on a wheel.
As Senior Director of Business Development, Thomas leads the growth and distribution strategy for True Crime and Quest Networks while overseeing TEGNA’s subchannel portfolio across 64 TV stations in 51 U.S. markets.
A graduate of the University of Georgia, Thomas began his career in the Peach State with roles at WJBF in Augusta and WAGA in Atlanta before joining WXIA-TV as Executive Sports Producer. During his tenure, he earned multiple Regional Emmy Awards while covering marquee events including the Super Bowl, the Masters, and the College Football National Championship. He later transitioned to the WXIA sales team, developing sponsorship integrations, and joined TEGNA’s Multicast group in 2022.
Thomas serves on the UGA Grady College of Journalism Alumni Board. In his spare time, he cheers on the Dawgs and Liverpool (You’ll Never Walk Alone!) and fails at golf.