If you have a Roku television or streaming device, you can now stumble across something that would have sounded rather strange just a few years ago: a 24-hour television channel whose programming is made with artificial intelligence (AI).
It is called Fairground AI Creator TV, and its arrival may be less important for the individual channel than for what it says about where television could be heading.
The channel was launched in August 2026 by Fairground Entertainment, a company founded in 2025 by streaming entrepreneur Colin Petrie-Norris. Fairground says the channel is the first free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel devoted exclusively to AI-generated content. It is available on Roku and is being distributed across more than one connected-TV and FAST platform.
But there is an important qualification to the phrase “first ever.”
Is it really the first AI television channel?
Not exactly, at least not if the claim is interpreted broadly.
There have already been AI-generated television experiments and AI presenters. For example, a Pakistani television channel called Discover Pakistan launched what academic researchers described in 2024 as the world’s first AI talk show, featuring an AI clone of the channel’s CEO alongside other AI characters.