Media mogul Byron Allen has reaffirmed his willingness to pay Disney $10 billion for ABC and a package of other cable holdings, including National Geographic and FX, that would add considerable heft to his already sizable TV empire.
The outspoken founder of Allen Media Group had made an offer earlier this month for the Disney properties and revealed he had been wooing Disney CEO Bob Iger for years over his interest in the cable assets. Allen says the two first met when he was the host of reality television program Real People in the early 80s and Iger was an up-and-coming ABC executive, and that the two even sent their children to the same school. “I've been on his case for years,” Allen said during an interview Wednesday at Vox’s Code Conference in Dana Point, Calif. “Like, ‘Come on Bob—what are you doing, man, let go of those stations.’”
