{"id":3348,"date":"2026-08-07T22:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/watching-rokus-ai-channel-is-like-eating-from-a-trough\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:59:46","slug":"watching-rokus-ai-channel-is-like-eating-from-a-trough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/watching-rokus-ai-channel-is-like-eating-from-a-trough\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Roku\u2019s AI channel is like eating from a trough"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An AI-generated illustration of a man in a suit holding up a purple pocket watch.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Roku \/ Fairground\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-07-at-2.40.34-PM.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The appeal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23680217\/fast-services-tubi-roku-pluto-tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free ad-supported streaming television<\/a> (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku&rsquo;s latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/cordcuttersnews.com\/roku-adds-4-new-free-channels-to-roku-tvs-roku-players-in-august-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roku added four new channels<\/a> to its library of streamable programming. Along with dedicated feeds for old episodes of <em>Mad TV<\/em>, <em>Whose Line Is It Anyway?<\/em>, and a variety of Black sitcoms, the platform also debuted a 24\/7 stream filled with projects from <a href=\"https:\/\/fairground.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Petrie-Norris&rsquo; AI startup,  \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/976939\/roku-fairground-ai-fast-channel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}