Television.ai

Overview

Television.ai is a Frankfurt-based media-technology startup that applies AI to video production for news. Founder and CEO Olcay Buyan previously worked in product and development roles at publishers and technology companies, according to the QURATOR 2021 conference programme. The company's website is https://www.television.ai .

Why this entity matters

Newsrooms face constant pressure to publish video quickly with small teams. Television.ai is one of the German startups that tried to automate part of that workflow, matching footage to a written story and a synthetic voice-over. It is a documented case of an early-stage media-technology company in Frankfurt and a small data point for how generative tools entered German broadcasting and publishing before the 2023 wave of general-purpose AI products.

Company background

The STADIEM programme page, published in August 2022, gives Frankfurt am Main as the location and March 2019 as the founding date; it is the only source reviewed with a founding date, so the date is not independently verified. The Crunchbase profile also lists Frankfurt and describes the product as video editing on autopilot. A business-register aggregator lists Olcay Buyan of Frankfurt as managing director of a Television AI UG, which matches the founder named by Startuprad.io. The product turns a journalist's written story and raw footage into an edit with a synthetic voice-over (STADIEM; Crunchbase). In the April 2021 Startuprad.io interview, Buyan described automatic trailers and short spots for television programmes and independent productions and said the company was looking to close a Series A towards the end of 2021. No amount was named, no closing was found in the sources reviewed, and the Crunchbase profile lists no funding. Startuprad.io has not independently verified revenue, customers, headcount or the current operating status.

Role in the ecosystem

Television.ai sits in the DACH media-technology and newsroom-automation segment, close to the Frankfurt and Hessen media and startup scene and to public broadcasters. Its participation in the EU-funded STADIEM programme, with RBB named as corporate partner on the programme page, shows the route by which several European media startups tested products with broadcasters. Buyan also spoke on AI-supported news video production at the QURATOR 2021 conference.

Selected relationships and affiliations

Public sources describe the following relationships. The STADIEM programme page lists RBB, the Berlin-Brandenburg public broadcaster, as the corporate partner for Television.AI. The founder's earlier employers named in the QURATOR programme are Axel Springer, FUNKE Mediengruppe and Ericsson; those are career history of the founder, not relationships of the company. No investor has been named in the sources reviewed. The scope of the RBB relationship has not been independently detailed for this record.

Startuprad.io relevance

Startuprad.io lists two posts under the Television.ai tag. The first is the April 2021 founder interview with Olcay Buyan, published as a podcast and video episode and now a transcript article, which introduces the company's AI trailer and short-spot generation and its planned Series A. The second is a March 2026 explainer on branded podcast sponsorship pricing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where Television.ai appears only as a tag and not in the text; it is therefore a weak mention and not substantive coverage. The coverage is below the preferred depth of three articles.

Public source context

This record draws on the Startuprad.io interview archive, the STADIEM programme page at https://www.stadiem.eu/television-ai/ , the Crunchbase organisation profile, the QURATOR 2021 conference programme page for Olcay Buyan and a business-register aggregator entry for the managing director. The television.ai website returned only a page title when reviewed, so product claims rest on the programme and directory pages. Startuprad.io has not independently verified the founding date, the funding plans or the company's current activity.

Startuprad.io coverage

Branded Podcast Sponsorship Pricing & Models in Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Published: 10 March 2026
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: Explainer
https://www.startuprad.io/post/branded-content-and-sponsored-episodes-in-germany-austria-and-switzerland

Television.ai Generates with an AI TV Content
Published: 06 April 2021
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/television-ai-generates-with-an-ai-tv-content

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