The former CNN anchor says in next month's GQ he is not ruling out a presidential run. Speculation began after he ended a 30-year run with CNN in November with a reported $8 million severance package. Dobbs and the network were at odds over his repeated blasting of American immigration policies and his reporting on the anti-Obama "birthing conspiracy," though he calls the parting amicable. But recently, per the issue, Dobbs has tried softening his approach, taking meetings with Sen. Charles Schumer to "talk illegal immigration, to compromise, to think through the problem together." He told Telemundo in …

The Walt Disney Co. is shuttering Lyric Street Records label on Music Row in Nashville. The label, which opened in 1997, is home to major country music acts like Rascal Flatts, which will move to another Disney record label for now, although its long-term home is uncertain. Disney Music Group informed the Nashville-based label's 25 employees of its plans Wednesday. A casualty of the changing fortunes of the music business, the company is searching for alternative ways to create and sell new artists' music as Disney's overall corporation streamlines its far-flung entertainment empire.

John Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee will consider rewriting the telecommunications law in the aftermath of a court ruling last week that undermined the authority of regulators to manage networks. A U.S. appeals court ruled the FCC failed to show it had the authority to stop Comcast Corp from blocking online applications for distributing TV shows and other large, bandwidth files. The ruling dealt a blow to proponents of Net Neutrality, who argue providers should treat all traffic on the Internet equally, and to the FCC's authority to oversee the Internet. But Democrats and Republicans are divided …

Video game designer Will Wright, who designed the hit game series "The Sims," has signed a development deal with Science Channel to produce programming for the network. He will create series and specials for Science that explore topics including time travel, different worlds and the future. Each program will have online and interactive, reflecting the style of Wright's videogame work. The partnership reflects Science's strategy to expand the network's programming from science-based content to shows that explore creativity. Science recently made headlines by partnering with Steven Spielberg for a documentary on rebuilding the World Trade Center site. Wright's …

The History Channel's campaign for the upcoming nonfiction miniseries, "America The Story of Us," is providing Foursquare users with historical blurbs about the locations where they "check-in" around the country. According to a History Channel spokesperson, people who check-in at one of 1,000 landmarks in 19 cities will be served a historical tip about where they are. App users visiting the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater in Chicago will discover that infamous bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death there by federal agents when leaving a movie in 1934. Or, users who check-in to St. Paul's Chapel in New …

The Spanish-language broadcast network Telemundo is expanding the concept by signing licensing deals with manufacturers to develop products that can be integrated into programming like telenovelas - the over-the-top soaps that are a staple of Hispanic TV. Telemundo already works with advertisers like Clorox, Ford, Subway, T-Mobile and Toyota on branded-entertainment projects. The new deals will create products that would not otherwise exist for viewers to buy. The first products will be jewelry, made by the Richline Group, a unit of Warren E. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway holding company, which is to be worn in an episode of the telenovela …

CNN.com plans to debut new blogs focused on select content verticals. They will also push a social connection. They include food- and health-centric Eatocracy and Belief Blog, which will address religious issues. The site has already launched "This Just In," which compiles breaking news stories; and "Afghanistan Crossroads," which focuses on the ongoing war. Besides new blogs, CNN.com is also looking to beef up its existing technology and entertainment channels. On the tech front, the site editors plan to cover more gaming, social media and mobile topics. On the entertainment side, "Trending Now" will highlight topics that readers are …

Time Inc. EVP Sylvia Auton actively lobbied Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes to spin off the embattled magazine unit, saying it was hampered by being part of the media conglomerate. Sources say she pushed the point with several executives, though Aucton denies the charge. Meantime, John Huey, editor-in-chief of Time Inc., is said to have been so upset by her blurring the line between advertising and editorial he pulled his name from the mastheads of all the magazines in her division. The company insisted that Huey had no editorial input in the division after a 2008 realignment. One insider …

To date, ABC is the only television network to offer an application for watching its shows free -- with ads -- on Apple iPad tablet computer, and it says its business model is proving fruitful. In the 10 days since the iPad's debut, its TV-show watching app has been downloaded 205,000 times, giving the Walt Disney Co. unit a presence on nearly half the 450,000 devices that Apple says it has sold, generating "several million" ad impressions, according to the network. Advertisers on the iPad so far include Clorox, Lexus, AT&T, Heineken, Sears and Target. Disney is delivering …

Business spending on mobile-marketing will more than triple this year as the category starts a soaring five-year growth trajectory, per a Borrell Associates. Local is the big news: Local mobile spending will double in 2010 as it begins a similar five-year boom. Nationwide, mobile marketing will jump from $2.7 billion in 2009 to $9 billion in 2010, the report predicts -- and then will rocket to $56.6 billion by 2014. Two-thirds of the spending will be various forms of advertising, but one-third will come from promotions budgets to enable coupons, contests and discounts. Spending by local businesses will …