BASS GROUP SAYS IT HAS HAD TALKS ON TAFT <TFB> A group led by members of the wealthy Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas, which holds a 24.9 pct stake in Taft Broadcasting Co, said it has had talks about taking part in a move to take control of the company. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the group said it has had discussions with other Taft stockholders and some company managers and directors "concerning participation in a group to acquire control" of the company. The Bass group, which did not identify any of the other people with whom it said it has had talks, said it plans to continue evaluating Taft and "will be involved in further discussions relating to the future control and direction" of the company. The group, which holds 2,291,210 Taft common shares, said its members may buy more shares of Taft common stock, or may decide to sell some or all of its stake. On Friday Taft said it would negotiate with a group led by its vice chairman, Dudley Taft, and a Rhode Island investment firm, which had offered 150 dlrs a share for the company. The Dudley Taft group, Theta Corp, which also includes Narragansett Capital Corp, a Providence, R.I., investment firm, is seeking to take the company private in a leveraged buyout valued at 1.38 billion dlrs. Besides the Bass group, another major Taft shareholder, Cincinnati, Ohio, financier Carl Lindner, has also said he has had talks about increasing his stake in the company, taking part in a takeover effort, or launching one himself. Lindner controls 1,489,298 shares of Taft common stock, or 16.2 pct of the total.