moved to the top of the bidders list when earlier this week, Tom Carter, a former Nexstar executive who now serves as senior advisor to CEO Perry Sook and the board of directors, told a crowd at the BofA Securities Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference that the company could buy Disney’s stations with “little friction” and hinted at a potential opportunity to do so “depending on how
things fall out.”Byron Allen is also among those interested in a sale. The media mogul’s Allen Media Group has already invested over $1 billion in the last three years to acquire 27 NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates. He also purchased the Black News Channel for $11 million. His last move to acquire majority stake in Paramount’s BET channel fell through when the company decided to withdraw plans to sell.