	bass group emerges as possible taft tfb bidders the bass group once thought by analysts to be eager to sell its holdings in taft broadcasting co emerged as another potential bidder for the ohio broadcasting company the bass group which holds pct of taft said it had talked with other taft stockholders and some company managers and directors concerning participation in a group to uire control of the company the bass group said it had talks with other taft stockholders and members of taft management about participating in a group to uire control the group which is led by the wealthy bass brothers of fort worth texas did not identify any of the other people with whom it had talks taft said friday it would negotiate with its vice chairman dudley taft on his group s dlr per share or billion dlr offer for the company at the time the company said it authorized its adviser goldman sachs and co to explore other takeover proposals and to supply financial data to other interested bidders if indeed the reason dudley taft is no longer president is because the bass group tossed him out i couldn t see them backing him on any deal said one analyst who asked not to be identified i think they wanted a way out now this sounds like they re going to join the group and buy themselves out said edward atorino media analyst with smith barney harris upham and co analysts have speculated that carl lindner may be interested in uiring the company they speculated he may be one of the shareholders in talks with the bass group lindner chairman of american financial corp holds pct of taft he was not immediately available for comment analysts have said they are baffled by the strength of taft s stock price compared to what they see as breakup values for the company several analysts had estimated a break up value of less than one analyst said he believes it has a breakup value of to dlrs per share taft stock closed at up they investors are saying here s another one another family dispute said dennis mcalpine of oppenheimer reuter 
