Good Saturday morning from Seattle . . . Nice to be back in balmy (25°) Seattle after a week working in frigid New York.
This week’s Update presents yet another announcement by yet another generative AI platform about yet another AI tool that has direct application to (and is likely to have a major disruptive
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Online Travel Update: TripAdvisor's AI Partnership & Corporate Travel Merger Developments
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, January 17, 2025, is below. Other than Perplexity’s newly announced partnership with TripAdvisor (readers, please read the story below), this past week was relatively quiet as the industry (and the world) waits with anticipation (or for some, bated…
The Importance of Opting In: Pitfalls of AI Enablement Without Client Buy-In

Imagine you’re an associate at a consulting firm. You’re surprised to see a new “AI Assist” button appear in your email application one morning. Without any training or guidance from your firm’s IT department, you decide to try it out, asking the AI to draft a response to a client’s inquiry about tax implications for…
2025 Travel Trends and Updates: AI's Impact, UK Travel Changes, and a Focus on Safety
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our first Online Travel Update for 2025 is below. The past two weeks produced a number of interesting stories, including the Department of Justice’s attempt to stop the planned Amex GBT / CWT merger, interesting predictions coming out of Skift’s recent Megatrends events and valuable reminders for…
The Past Two Weeks in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 23, 2024 to January 3, 2025
We took last week off for the holidays and today bring you the regulatory developments of interest to broadcasters from the past two weeks, which we discuss below with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- The Commission released a Report and Order
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Looking Into the Crystal Ball – What Legal and Policy Issues are Ahead for Broadcasters in 2025?
It’s a new year, and as has been our custom at the beginning of each year, we dust off the crystal ball and take a look at what we think may be some of the significant regulatory and legislative issues that broadcasters will be facing in 2025. This year, there is an extra layer of…
NEW LAWS TO REGULATE DEEPFAKE IMAGES
As a result of advances in artificial intelligence, it is now possible to digitally create realistic images of people that are indistinguishable from their actual images. In response, California has enacted two new laws, AB 2602 and AB 1836 recently signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The laws are meant to protect persons from the unauthorized…
December 2024 Regulatory Updates for Broadcasters -Annual DTV Ancillary/Supplementary Services Report, EEO Deadlines, NCE TV Filing Window and Related Filing Freezes, Comment Deadlines, and More
Even with the holidays upon us, regulation never stops. There are several yearly deadlines in December which broadcasters need to review, particularly those in certain states with EEO requirements at the beginning of the month. There is a short freeze on TV applications while applications in a window for new noncommercial TV stations are filed. …
Upcoming Changes to AI Regulation in the New Administration
With the second Trump Administration set to take power in January 2025, one can expect a pendulum swing in many aspects of technology policy. For example, while it is expected that President Trump will will continue efforts by the Biden Administration to limit China’s access to advanced semiconductor technology, the SEC is expected to be…
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: November 4, 2024 to November 8, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- On our Broadcast Law Blog, we reviewed many of the broadcast issues pending before FCC that could be affected by
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