Hoffarth: Change ‘isn’t making ESPN indomitable’ after Disney-Fox merger adds FSW, Prime Ticket

It’s a “game-changer,” right?
That’s the sports idiom brashly tossed around by business analysts who sound as if they have the know-how to properly size up the magnitude of a massive merger like the one this past week with Disney and Fox that involves more than $52 billion and all sorts of content.
The game in play here, at the most basic level for the Southern California sports market, is the home-team channels for the Angels, Kings, Ducks and Clippers. For years, a