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Byron Allen latest bidder for Tegna

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Photo: Entertainment Studios

Deadline today reports that media entrepreneur Byron Allen is the latest bidder for acquisition of Tegna.  Allen Media Group has offered $8.5 billion for the companies assets & properties.  This equals the bid that Apollo Global Management has tendered for the purchase. Allen Media currently owns 15 television stations in 11 markets. It acquired most of them last month from USA TV for $305 million and said then that it planned to invest some $10 billion to acquire ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox television stations over the next three years to become one of the largest broadcast television groups in America.The company owns a handful of cable networks, including the Weather Channel, digital news site The Grio, and film and television production under Entertainment Studios. Allen personally partnered with Sinclair to acquire the Fox Regional Sports Networks from Disney in a deal worth $10.6 billion.

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Mike Cherry

retired broadcaster: on-air, MD, PD, asst PD, Prod Mgr, IT, station technician/engineer, pioneer Internet webcaster, station installation/maintenance; 12 years in commercial radio, 17 years volunteer in campus/community radio in B.C., Alberta & Wash. Amateur radio operator & "DXer" specializing in AM night-time DX, short-wave DX/listening & remote SDR DXing/listening

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  • October 22, 2021 at QZVX

    Bryan A Foster says:

    My name is Bryan Allen that’s why I was interested because Byron Allen is who’s doing the buying and I miss my channel 8 in Dallas so I hope he gets the deal I wish I could give him a billion to work with.

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  • October 22, 2021 at QZVX

    Bryan A Foster says:

    Tegna using strong arm tactics on its viewers sickens me I have a name for people like that, but they just want their stock to go up so they get more money for their company ,puke.

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